{"nrhp_refnum":"04001544","name":"Rokeby","other_names":["VDHR File #048-0019"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5447 Kings Hwy","address_restricted":false,"city":"King George","county":"King George County","state":"VA","lat":38.27209906600007,"lon":-77.24720109936969,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Social History","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rokeby is a Federal-style brick plantation mansion built circa 1828 on a hilltop above the Rappahannock River valley, on Kings Highway (State Route 3) in King George, King George County, Virginia. The 50-acre property includes the mansion and eleven other contributing resources, mostly from circa 1917-1920.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Rokeby is locally significant under Criterion A for agriculture and social history, as an antebellum plantation and later a family summer estate. It is tied to Gustavus Brown Wallace and Langbourne Meade Williams (Criterion B), and is a good example of Federal architecture with Colonial Revival outbuildings (Criterion C). The complex retains a high degree of historic fabric and integrity.","narrative":"Rokeby is a red brick Federal-style mansion built circa 1828 on a level hilltop more than one hundred feet above the Rappahannock River valley in King George County, Virginia. The main block is two stories and three bays wide, with Flemish bond brickwork, a low hipped roof, tripartite windows and an elliptical leaded-glass fanlight. Two wings were added circa 1912, and the west wing was enlarged in brick during the circa 1917-1920 building campaign. The house was once the center of a 2,000-acre plantation tied to Gustavus Brown Wallace, where enslaved and hired workers farmed cash crops. In 1916 it was sold to Richmond banker Langbourne Meade Williams, whose extended family used it as a summer home for decades. He added a schoolhouse, summer house, playhouse, garage, barns, a boxwood garden, gazebo and tennis court. Fifty acres, with twelve contributing resources, retain high historic integrity and are surrounded by protected farmland.","period_of_significance":"circa 1828-1931","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The mansion remains in use as a dwelling on a working farm, with conservation easements on surrounding land. Some outbuildings, including the schoolhouse, summer/tenant house and sheep barn, are listed as work in progress.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.701657-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/6814/41681418/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04001544.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001544/35fadefaa2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001544/35fadefaa2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROKEBY,_KING_GEORGE_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROKEBY,_KING_GEORGE_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681418","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokeby_(King_George,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713153"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-george-county/rokeby-04001544/"}