{"nrhp_refnum":"07000372","name":"Woodhouse House","other_names":["DHR Number 134-0058","Fountain House","Simmons House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3067 W. Neck Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.73037153900003,"lon":-76.05069904799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame Federal-style farmhouse at 3067 West Neck Road in Virginia Beach (formerly Princess Anne County), built circa 1810 and likely by Captain Thomas Woodhouse, with outbuildings and two cemeteries.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving example of Federal architecture in the southern part of former Princess Anne County, where development was more modest. It shows the transition from Colonial forms to Federal style, with a vernacular variation in the stair placement. The period also covers the 1904 kitchen and smokehouse.","narrative":"Built around 1810 on land acquired by Captain Thomas Woodhouse, this two-story weatherboard farmhouse on West Neck Road in Virginia Beach sits on a low brick foundation under a side-gable roof, with Flemish bond end chimneys that have glazed headers. Inside, a center-passage, single-pile plan is varied by an enclosed stair placed in the south parlor, a layout the nomination links to older hall-and-parlor houses. The property also includes a kitchen and smokehouse dating to 1904, later outbuildings, Woodhouse's 1813 grave marker, and the Simmons Cemetery at the northeast corner of the parcel. The house was recognized for its architecture because few Federal-style dwellings survive in the southern part of former Princess Anne County, where marshy land and a high water table led to more modest building. It shows how a local builder blended Federal ideas with earlier regional habits to achieve a modern appearance.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1810 - 1904","architect_builder":"Woodhouse, Captain Thomas","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling with associated outbuildings and cemeteries; the barn near the Woodhouse grave has collapsed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.381273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/6839/41683981/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07000372.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000372/b6d5156b98-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000372/b6d5156b98-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PumpkinSky","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WoodhouseHouseVB.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">PumpkinSky</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:WoodhouseHouseVB.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683981","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhouse_House_(Virginia_Beach,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q668050"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/woodhouse-house-07000372/"}