{"nrhp_refnum":"08000387","name":"Site 44GL103-Quest End","other_names":["Site 44GL103","DHR File #036-5047"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"5488 & 5476 Roanes Wharf Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Selden","county":"Gloucester County","state":"VA","lat":37.36268838400008,"lon":-76.46995090999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-05-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An archaeological site and farm complex on seven acres along Wilson Creek in Selden, Gloucester County, Virginia. It holds the ruins of an early 18th-century brick plantation house and a c. 1900 frame house (Quest End) with a barn and smokehouse.","why_significant":"The site holds intact, stratified deposits from a late 17th-century farmstead and an early 18th-century brick house, one of the earliest brick foundations in Gloucester County, with evidence of enslaved Africans living there. The c. 1900 house, barn and smokehouse, built by a local carpenter, represent a vanishing type of rural farm architecture and include salvaged elements and 1930s plans by a Richmond architect.","narrative":"Site 44GL103, known as Quest End, occupies seven acres on a narrow peninsula along Wilson Creek in Gloucester County, Virginia. Its earliest historic occupation was a late 17th-century tobacco farmstead, followed in the early 18th century by a large brick house with a partially plastered cellar measuring 36 by 20 feet. Artifacts such as colonoware and modified pewter spoons point to enslaved Africans living on the plantation, which appears to have been abandoned by about 1800. Archaeological work in the 1970s, 1990s and 2000s found intact, stratified deposits, including a filled inlet. The standing two-story frame house, barn and smokehouse date from about 1900 and were built by local carpenter James William Davis Collier. The house was enlarged in 1912 and again around 1935, using plans by Richmond architect Marion Dimmock, Jr., and it incorporates doors and mantels salvaged from other local historic buildings. Together the resources document early colonial settlement and rural life in the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"James William Davis Collier (local carpenter, built the c. 1900 house, barn and smokehouse); Marion Dimmock, Jr. (Richmond architect, c. 1935 expansion plans)","architectural_style":"Other","criteria":[],"status_note":"Contributing resources are described as in excellent condition; the house is a residence and the surrounding land is used as gardens, pasture and fields.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.672716-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/6809/41680904/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000387.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680904","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_44GL103,_Quest_End","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713209"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/gloucester-county/site-44gl103-quest-end-08000387/"}