{"nrhp_refnum":"100012916","name":"Weblin House (Boundary Decrease)","other_names":["Dhr Id# 134-0035"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5588 Moore's Pond Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2026-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-bay, story-and-a-half brick farmhouse with a gambrel roof at 5588 Moore's Pond Road in Virginia Beach (formerly Princess Anne County), Virginia, dating to around 1700 and surrounded by working farm fields.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of a small group of pre-Georgian vernacular farmhouses of old Princess Anne County, built on the hall-and-parlor plan with end chimneys, the so-called \"Virginia style.\" It is also described as the only house of its type in the vicinity to keep its rural setting.","narrative":"This small brick farmhouse stands at the end of a long farm lane on Moore's Pond Road in Virginia Beach, surrounded by flat cultivated fields. It is a story-and-a-half, three-bay building with a gambrel roof that replaced an original gable roof, probably in the early nineteenth century. Brickwork includes Flemish and English bond, glazed headers and gauged flat arches over the windows. A massive south chimney was rebuilt in the 1930s using original material. Inside, the two-room plan retains several eighteenth-century mantels and a rare bolection molding mantel upstairs. The nomination dates the house to about 1700, when the land belonged to John Weblin, Jr. It is grouped with other early farmhouses of old Princess Anne County, such as the Thoroughgood, Wishart and Keeling houses, as an example of the hall-and-parlor \"Virginia style.\" Its unchanged rural setting adds to its value as a historic landscape. Reviewers questioned its alterations, including a modern brick wing, but it was accepted.","period_of_significance":"17th and 18th centuries (no specific dates given)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pre-Georgian vernacular \"Virginia style\" hall-and-parlor farmhouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, altered, on its original site, and occupied as a private residence at the time of the 1974 nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.098691-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/6839/41683993/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002248.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683993","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/weblin-house-boundary-decrease-100012916/"}