{"nrhp_refnum":"11000547","name":"Hill, Captain Timothy, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5122 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chincoteague Island","county":"Accomack County","state":"VA","lat":37.94694361100005,"lon":-75.35303155899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-pen plank-wall house built about 1800 on Chincoteague Island, Accomack County, Virginia, now on a 1.82-acre site with a late-nineteenth-century house and a modern shed. It was moved to its current location in 2009-2010 after an earlier move in 1980.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a very rare surviving early nineteenth-century plank house with original pit-sawn and hewn pine planks and full dovetail corners. It retains historic floorboards, a mantel, an original batten door with 21 layers of paint, and dozens of carved ship images. It is described as possibly the oldest remaining house on Chincoteague and one of few Virginia houses known to have had a wooden chimney.","narrative":"This small plank-wall house on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, dates to about 1800. It measures roughly 17 by 16 feet. Each wall is built of eight pit-sawn and hewn pine planks joined at the corners with full dovetails. Inside are historic floorboards, an early-to-mid nineteenth-century mantel, and a batten door to the garret stair that carries 21 generations of paint. Over thirty carved outlines of schooners and sloops mark the exterior. The house passed through several changes, including brick piers and a chimney around 1820 and a frame addition around 1900 that was removed in 1980. It was moved twice, most recently in 2009-2010 to avoid demolition, and then restored. It is associated with Captain Timothy Hill, a waterman who died in 1859 and whose descendants lived there. It is considered significant as a rare surviving example of log plank construction in Virginia, and possibly the island's oldest house.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1800-1859","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"COLONIAL: Folk House: Pre-Railroad: Tidewater South Tradition","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition after the first stages of restoration; the form lists current function as vacant.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.81675-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/6792/41679203/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/11000547.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000547/131310eb45-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000547/131310eb45-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Acroterion","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capt_Timothy_Hill_House_VA1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Acroterion</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:Capt_Timothy_Hill_House_VA1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679203","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Timothy_Hill_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15207493"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/accomack-county/hill-captain-timothy-house-11000547/"}