{"nrhp_refnum":"10000094","name":"Millbrook","other_names":["Vdhr# 067-0012"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1204 Snead Spring Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crewe","county":"Nottoway County","state":"VA","lat":37.09961448350006,"lon":-78.13231195455012,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Millbrook is a farmstead of about 110 acres near Crewe in Nottoway County, Virginia, centered on a frame house begun by 1840 and enlarged by 1855, with restored and reconstructed outbuildings and two archaeological sites.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Millbrook is a highly intact example of an antebellum Southside Virginia farmstead, with a vernacular house mixing Federal and Greek Revival elements. It is also significant for stratified archaeological deposits that could inform the county's history from about 1840 to 1945.","narrative":"Millbrook is a 110-acre farmstead near Crewe in Nottoway County, Virginia. Its main house was built by 1840 as a two-story, three-bay frame house with an English basement, incorporating part of an older chimney that may predate 1820. By 1855 a western addition made it a five-bay, center-hall house with a pedimented Greek Revival porch and Federal-style mantels. Original heart pine floors, beaded weatherboard, window sash and stairways survive. Restored contributing buildings include a kitchen, smokehouse, dairy and hay barn, joined by a tobacco barn ruin and two archaeological sites. The property was listed for its architecture and its archaeology. The house shows how Federal restraint was combined with Greek Revival details on a Southside farm. Buried deposits record domestic and agricultural life, including Euro-American and African-American occupations, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The farm developed from a small tobacco plantation worked by enslaved people into one using tenant farmers and day laborers.","period_of_significance":"circa 1840-circa 1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic; Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with associated agricultural outbuildings; the house and several outbuildings were recently restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.70288-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6823/41682325/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000094.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000094/12541034dc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000094/12541034dc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mailbox_for_Millbrook,_Nottoway_County,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mailbox_for_Millbrook,_Nottoway_County,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682325","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbrook_(Crewe,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15253411"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/nottoway-county/millbrook-10000094/"}