{"nrhp_refnum":"08001051","name":"Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Fauquier County line on the N., existing Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District on the E.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atoka","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.98113701850005,"lon":-77.81556529095928,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Military","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase of about 58 acres to a rural historic district near the village of Atoka in Fauquier County, Virginia, along U.S. Route 50 and Rectors Lane up to Goose Creek and the Loudoun County line. It holds late-twentieth-century houses, a school and farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The added land was left out of the original district by oversight. It is included for its link to the village of Atoka, for open rural land matching the original district, and for its association with the June 1863 Civil War fighting at Goose Creek and the stone bridge. Heron's Court Farm sits on a rise that had strategic value to Union forces.","narrative":"This 58-acre addition to Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District lies along U.S. Route 50 and Rectors Lane at the western edge of Atoka, Virginia, bounded by Goose Creek and the Loudoun County line. It contains five dwellings, a school, a run-in shed, a pool and pool house, and a garage, all built in the late twentieth century. The best known is the brick dwelling at Heron's Court Farm, designed in 1963 by architect J. Sanford Potter with English manor house influences. The land was added because it had been left out of the original district by oversight and shares its open pastures, stone walls, board fences and historic road. It also sits within the area of the June 1863 cavalry fighting at Goose Creek and the stone bridge, where the rise at Heron's Court Farm gave Union troops a strong vantage point. Although none of the buildings are of historic age, they fit the scale and character of the surroundings.","period_of_significance":"circa 1830 to 1958","architect_builder":"J. Sanford Potter (architect of Heron's Court Farm dwelling, 1963)","architectural_style":"Other: Split-level, Ranch, Neo-Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"All ten resources are non-contributing because they are less than 50 years old; Heron's Court Farm is an active beef and horse farm, and about 30 acres of it in Fauquier County are under conservation easement.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.187665-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/6805/41680596/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08001051.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001051/4c3a3fab21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001051/4c3a3fab21-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CROMWELL%27S_RUN_RURAL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:CROMWELL%27S_RUN_RURAL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT;_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08000907","name":"Cromwell's Run Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/cromwells-run-rural-historic-district-08000907/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680596","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%27s_Run_Rural_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712217"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/cromwells-run-rural-historic-district-boundary-increase-08001051/"}