{"nrhp_refnum":"10000543","name":"Floris Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 029-5179"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Centreville Rd, W Ox Rd, Monroe St, and Frying Pan Branch","address_restricted":false,"city":"Herndon","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.93756665050006,"lon":-77.40737912686762,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Community Planning and Development","Education","Entertainment/Recreation","Ethnic Heritage-Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural village and farming district in western Fairfax County, Virginia, near Herndon, centered on the Centreville Road and West Ox Road intersection. It includes much of Frying Pan Farm Park, with resources dating from about 1785 to about 1960.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be locally significant under Criterion A for agriculture, as a community built on dairy farming from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. It is also significant under Criterion C for vernacular, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival architecture. Its period of significance ends around 1960, when Frying Pan Farm Park was created and dairying declined.","narrative":"Floris is a small rural village and farming district in western Fairfax County, Virginia, now surrounded by suburban development. Its core is the crossroads of Centreville Road and West Ox Road, with the Frying Pan Meetinghouse to the northwest and two farms, Ellmore and Kidwell, on the east side. Much of the land is part of Frying Pan Farm Park, which preserves and interprets farm life from the 1920s to the 1950s. The meetinghouse, built about 1785, is the earliest building. Most other main resources date from the 1890s to the 1920s and are modest vernacular houses, schools, and a Methodist church, with some Colonial Revival and Gothic Revival details. The district is recognized for showing how a dairy farming community developed in Northern Virginia from the late nineteenth century to about 1960. Its fields, farmsteads, and village layout still convey that agricultural past, although some buildings have been lost or altered and the park has added newer structures.","period_of_significance":"circa 1785-circa 1960","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Vernacular; Late Gothic Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Much of the district lies within Frying Pan Farm Park, a working farm and interpretive park. Houses and the Methodist Church remain in domestic and religious use. Bowman's Store was demolished in 2008, and the Cherok House site is vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.089332-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/6804/41680471/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000543.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000543/cc265c18e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000543/cc265c18e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KidwellFarm_2.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:KidwellFarm_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5461891"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/floris-historic-district-10000543/"}