{"nrhp_refnum":"100011852","name":"Land, Francis, House (Boundary Decrease)","other_names":["Rose Hall","Ohr Id 134-0031"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3133 Virginia Beach Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2025-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, one-and-one-half-story gambrel-roofed brick house at 3133 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia, known in recent years as Rose Hall. Built in the mid-eighteenth century, probably by Francis Thoroughgood Land.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a good example of a substantial mid-eighteenth-century rural dwelling and one of a small, rapidly diminishing group of colonial buildings in the city. It is also tied to the Land family, early settlers of the Lynnhaven River section of Princess Anne County. The gambrel roof was a form favored on the area's eighteenth-century farmhouses.","narrative":"Standing on one of the few open tracts along a heavily commercial stretch of Virginia Beach Boulevard, this brick house is a rare survivor of the colonial era in the city. It is a five-bay, one-and-one-half-story building with a gambrel roof, set on a high basement, with Flemish bond brickwork and interior end chimneys. Inside is a central-passage, double-pile plan, with raised-panel wainscoting in one room and a Neo-classical mantel in the northeast parlor. Much of the trim reflects restoration by a former owner, and later rear additions came with its use as a dress shop. The house was probably built by Francis Thoroughgood Land, a vestryman of Lynnhaven Parish and County Court member, whose family were among the earliest settlers of the Lynnhaven River area of Princess Anne County. The property passed through his son Francis M. Land and then to a daughter and her husband. It was listed as a good example of a mid-eighteenth-century rural dwelling.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Probably built by Francis Thoroughgood Land","architectural_style":"Vernacular with Georgian elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Recently used as a dress shop; bought by a developer in February 1975 and its fate was described as uncertain. Minor arson damage occurred in March 1975. A later data sheet lists it as not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.065569-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/6839/41683997/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/75002118.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683997","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/land-francis-house-boundary-decrease-100011852/"}