{"nrhp_refnum":"05000476","name":"Kinsale Historic District","other_names":["Vdhr #096-0090"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Kinsale Rd, Kinsale Bridge Rd., Sigouney Dr., Great House Rd., and Yeocomico Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kinsale","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"VA","lat":38.03179703700005,"lon":-76.57855284659442,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Military"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural waterfront village historic district in Kinsale, Westmoreland County, Virginia, covering about 113 acres at the meeting of Bailey's Mill Creek, Kinsale Branch, West Yeocomico River and Hampton Hall Branch. It has 66 contributing resources, mostly houses and outbuildings dating from the 1870s to the 1920s.","why_significant":"The district is significant as a deepwater port that thrived on schooner and steamboat trade, with its greatest commercial activity running until the early 1950s. It has a fairly intact collection of late 19th and early 20th century buildings in vernacular and popular styles. It also records military events of the War of 1812 and the Civil War.","narrative":"Kinsale is a small waterfront village in northeastern Westmoreland County, Virginia, where four creeks and rivers meet. The historic district covers about 113 acres and includes 66 contributing resources, mainly houses, outbuildings, a few commercial buildings and a cemetery. Established by the Virginia Assembly in 1784, the village prospered as a deepwater port, handling both schooner trade and steamboat service to Baltimore. Fires and wartime losses in 1812 and the Civil War removed most early buildings, so the surviving fabric is mostly from 1870 to the early 20th century. Only two antebellum houses remain, the Great House and the Little House, along with the Bailey Cemetery, where a midshipman killed in 1813 is buried. Typical buildings include I-houses, Queen Anne dwellings with projecting bays, American Foursquare houses and a former general store. Commercial activity ended with the closing of the last cannery in the early 1950s, and the grid street plan still reflects the village's early layout.","period_of_significance":"1784-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Late Victorian, Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, I-house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Since the last canneries closed in the early 1950s, Kinsale has been primarily a residential community that still has its own post office.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.538289-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/6841/41684108/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000476.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000476/68c684a0a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000476/68c684a0a9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Kinsale.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Kinsale.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005837","name":"Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/occupacia-rappahannock-rural-historic-district-100005837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684108","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15238562"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/westmoreland-county/kinsale-historic-district-05000476/"}