{"nrhp_refnum":"06000341","name":"Tower House","other_names":["Edgewater","Marshland-on-the-Potomac","029-0151"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9066 Tower House Place","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.71158442900003,"lon":-77.06701057799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame house at 9066 Tower House Place in southeastern Fairfax County, Virginia, near Alexandria. It was built in 1888 as an Italianate villa and remodeled and expanded in 1900-1901 into a transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare, well-preserved example in Fairfax County of the shift from Late Victorian Queen Anne architecture to the early Colonial Revival style. It combines an asymmetrical form and round corner tower with classical ornament and a formal central entrance. Its interior is described as one of the best-preserved early Colonial Revival interiors in the county.","narrative":"Tower House is a frame residence on a 1.2-acre lot in southeastern Fairfax County, Virginia, about two miles north of Mount Vernon. It began in 1888 as a two-story Italianate villa built for Isaac B. Jones. In 1900-1901 new owners greatly expanded and remodeled it, adding a steeply pitched slate hipped roof, a semi-circular corner tower with a conical roof, and a wrap-around porch with a classical portico. The facade mixes Queen Anne asymmetry with Colonial Revival features such as a Palladian entrance, Tuscan columns, and a centered dormer. Part of the original villa survives at the rear. Inside, parquet floors, Adamesque plaster ceilings, a Federal Revival staircase, and a Neo-Classical parlor colonnade remain well preserved. It was listed for its architecture, as a rare local example of the transition from Queen Anne to early Colonial Revival design. Restoration work in 2002-2003 repaired missing and damaged features.","period_of_significance":"1888 - 1901","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling; the owners restored exterior and interior features in 2002-2003.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.240361-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/6804/41680488/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000341.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000341/04cd216fbf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000341/04cd216fbf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Shearonink","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Shearonink</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:Tower_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680488","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_House_(Alexandria,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18755147"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/tower-house-06000341/"}