{"nrhp_refnum":"08000872","name":"Hills Farm","other_names":["VDHR File #001-0023","Hunting Creek Plantation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19065 Hills Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenbush","county":"Accomack County","state":"VA","lat":37.78198076900003,"lon":-75.70406193399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hills Farm is a one-and-a-half-story Flemish-bond brick plantation house begun in 1747 for Richard Drummond III near Greenbush on Virginia's Eastern Shore, with eleven contributing farm outbuildings on a tract beside Hunting Creek.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a well-preserved colonial brick dwelling with a central-passage plan, built for one of Accomack County's wealthiest planters. It also records successive alterations: Greek Revival updating in 1856 and a thorough Colonial Revival restoration in 1942 by architect James W. Adams, whose interior designs are treated as historical assets in their own right.","narrative":"Hills Farm is a brick plantation house on Virginia's Eastern Shore, near Greenbush in Accomack County, overlooking Hunting Creek. Richard Drummond III, then one of the county's wealthiest planters, began construction in 1747. The house is built of sand-molded brick laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers, and has a central passage with rooms on either side. Its south front, with gauged-brick jack arches, was clearly meant as the main façade. In 1856 John R. Drummond had it remodeled with Greek Revival details and a weatherboarded east wing. In 1942 new owners Henry and Fredonia Richardson hired Washington architect James W. Adams to restore it in the Colonial Revival style. He restored the original plan, added a slate roof and designed raised-panel interiors. Eleven wood-frame outbuildings, including a probable eighteenth-century smokehouse and dairy, a barn, sheds and a 1940s caretaker's cottage, complete the farmstead. The property remains a residence and working farm.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Drummond III (original owner/builder, 1747); Wm. H. White (builder, 1856 renovation); James W. Adams, architect (1942 restoration)","architectural_style":"Colonial/Postmedieval English; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are both listed as domestic single dwelling with secondary structures, agricultural storage and animal facilities; the house was restored in the 1940s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.262889-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/6791/41679195/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000872.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679195","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Farm_(Greenbush,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14691963"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/accomack-county/hills-farm-08000872/"}