{"nrhp_refnum":"09000335","name":"Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse","other_names":["Woodlawn Friends Meeting House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8990 Woodlawn Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Belvoir","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.714007706000075,"lon":-77.14257065799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, gable-roofed wood frame Quaker meetinghouse with weatherboard siding at 8990 Woodlawn Road, Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia. The southern half was begun in 1851 and the northern half added between 1866 and 1869, on a 2.4-acre parcel with a burial ground.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a rare Virginia example of vernacular Quaker Plain Style meetinghouse architecture, of the 'cottage' type with a two-cell plan and a traditional counterweighted partition wall. It is also tied to the Quaker settlers who came to the Woodlawn tract from 1846 to show that farming could succeed without slave labor, and to the building's occupation by Union soldiers during the Civil War.","narrative":"Set on a wooded 2.4-acre parcel that is now an in-holding within Fort Belvoir, this small Quaker meetinghouse in Fairfax County, Virginia, has served worshippers continuously since the 1850s. The wood frame building measures roughly twenty-four by thirty-six feet. Its southern half dates from 1851, and the northern half was added between 1866 and 1869, creating two matching cells with separate entrances for men and women. Inside, raised platforms hold facing elders' benches, and a partition wall with counterweighted paneled doors once allowed separate men's and women's meetings. Quaker families from the Delaware Valley settled the surrounding Woodlawn tract beginning in 1846, intending to show that farming could succeed without enslaved labor. Union soldiers occupied the building during the Civil War and carved names and initials into the siding. A burial ground with over one hundred headstones adjoins it. The building is valued as a rare Virginia example of plain-style Quaker architecture.","period_of_significance":"1851-1869","architect_builder":"Alexandria Monthly Meeting, Fairfax Quarter","architectural_style":"OTHER: Quaker Plain Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In continuous use for worship since its origins; described as little changed from its historic appearance and in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.189033-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6805/41680523/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000335.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000335/b865e162f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000335/b865e162f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Slowking4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn-friends004.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Slowking4</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:Woodlawn-friends004.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Quaker_Meetinghouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033032"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/woodlawn-quaker-meetinghouse-09000335/"}