{"nrhp_refnum":"05001621","name":"Gordon-Baughan-Warren House","other_names":["Boyd House","127-6167"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6303 Towana Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.57271625900006,"lon":-77.52635043399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1-1/2-story frame vernacular Greek Revival house at 6303 Towana Road in western Richmond, Virginia, begun about 1835 and enlarged around 1860, 1910 and 1920, with a guesthouse and garage on the same lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving 19th-century farmhouse and the only antebellum structure in this western part of the city, in a neighborhood otherwise built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It reflects its 19th-century roots and its change into an early 20th-century suburban home. It is also tied to the growth of the Westhampton suburb, helped by the 1902 trolley line.","narrative":"Set well back from Towana Road in western Richmond, this 1-1/2-story frame house began about 1835 as a three-bay, hall-and-parlor dwelling. Later owners added rooms around 1860, between about 1904 and 1911, and again by 1921, mostly to the rear so the original proportions were not overwhelmed. A guesthouse of about 1860 and a garage of about 1910 stand on the 1.6-acre lot, which keeps terraced ground once used for vegetable growing. The house is described as the only antebellum structure in this part of the city apart from one brick farmhouse across Three Chopt Road. It began as a small farm in the Rio Vista community. After the Westhampton trolley line opened in 1902, the neighborhood grew into a suburb, and George Warren, a Richmond businessman, enlarged the house for his family after buying it in 1910. It was listed for its architecture and its link to the suburb's development.","period_of_significance":"1835-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid 19th-century Greek Revival (vernacular)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the form says the house retains a high level of integrity inside and out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.877331-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6831/41683145/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001621.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001621/abc68869d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001621/abc68869d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boyd_House_(Gordon-Baughan-Warren_House),_Richmond,_Virginia,_2011.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Riley</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boyd_House_(Gordon-Baughan-Warren_House),_Richmond,_Virginia,_2011.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683145","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%E2%80%93Baughan%E2%80%93Warren_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16891795"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/gordon-baughan-warren-house-05001621/"}