{"nrhp_refnum":"05001262","name":"Black Meadow","other_names":["Wold Trap Farm","068-0156"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17379 Wolf Trap Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gordonsville","county":"Orange County","state":"VA","lat":38.16756077200006,"lon":-78.1409972751691,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-11-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Black Meadow, also called Wolf Trap Farm, is a 584-acre farm near Gordonsville in Orange County, Virginia. Its main house is a Greek Revival dwelling built in 1856 by John Wickliffe Scott, with an ell added in 1916, and the farm has several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Black Meadow is a rare, high-style Greek Revival house in Orange County. It is modest in scale and has carved detailing, a front-gable form and an original vestibule plan, unlike the larger, more typical Greek Revival houses of the area. It is also tied to mid-19th-century national design theory and to Virginia's rural cultural context.","narrative":"Black Meadow, also known as Wolf Trap Farm, is a 584-acre farm near Gordonsville in Orange County, Virginia. Its centerpiece is a one-and-a-half-story weatherboard house that John Wickliffe Scott built in 1856. The front-gable form has two small gables inset beneath the main gable, which gives the impression of a larger temple front. Paired Tuscan posts, a transom, sidelights and fluted window surrounds add detail. A two-story ell was added in 1916, when the interior changed from a seven-room vestibule plan to a central-passage plan, though most original Greek Revival woodwork survived. The farm also has a milk house, tenant quarters, barns and tenant houses. The nomination presents the house as a rare high-style Greek Revival dwelling in Orange County. Its modest scale and carved ornament differ from the larger, more typical Greek Revival houses nearby. The comparison to those houses and to mid-19th-century design theory forms the basis for its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Wickliffe Scott (builder/original owner of the 1856 dwelling)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently used as a hotel (domestic function), with agricultural outbuildings still in use; the main house was renovated in 2004.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.849755-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/6823/41682333/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001262.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682333","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Meadow","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15199570"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/orange-county/black-meadow-05001262/"}