{"nrhp_refnum":"08001113","name":"Arcola Slave Quarters","other_names":["VDHR File No. 053-0984"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"24837 Evergreen Mills Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arcola","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":38.94850057300005,"lon":-77.52776446699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A circa 1800 stone slave quarters on a 4.42-acre remnant of a former plantation at 24837 Evergreen Mills Road, Arcola, Loudoun County, Virginia. It is a one-and-one-half-story, double-pen building with two attached blocks, built into a creek bank below the site of the original plantation house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a rare surviving stone slave quarters in Virginia, where most quarters were log or wood frame. It is significant under Criterion A for its link to slavery and African-American heritage in Loudoun County, and under Criterion C for its vernacular stone construction. It retains a large amount of historic fabric and its original siting near the main house.","narrative":"Built around 1800 on a former plantation in Arcola, this stone slave quarters sits on a banked site in a dry creek bed, a short distance downhill from the site of the original plantation house. It is a one-and-one-half-story building made of two attached double-pen blocks, each with a central chimney. Walls are rubble fieldstone laid in clay and pointed with lime mortar, and the roof framing is hand-hewn and pegged. The western block is older and has a small cellar; the eastern block was added later, and its doors were widened for farm machinery in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. A 1930 dwelling now occupies the old house foundation. The quarters is notable because most Virginia slave quarters were log or wood frame, making stone examples rare. It reflects local masonry traditions and the daily setting of enslaved people on a Loudoun County plantation between about 1800 and 1865. It retains much original fabric, though it has been altered.","period_of_significance":"circa 1800-1865","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant and single dwelling; the building is described as in fair condition, with windows boarded over and plaster failing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.66943-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/6816/41681611/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08001113.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001113/7d958e1d54-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001113/7d958e1d54-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArcolaSlaveQuarters_0609.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</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:ArcolaSlaveQuarters_0609.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681611","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcola_Slave_Quarters","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4787446"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/arcola-slave-quarters-08001113/"}