{"nrhp_refnum":"12000520","name":"Three Chopt Road Historic District","other_names":["Vdhr No. 127-6064"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Three Chopt Rd. from Cary St. to Bandy Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.577862527000065,"lon":-77.52670588987462,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district along a 1.3-mile stretch of Three Chopt Road in the Westhampton area of Richmond's West End, Virginia, made up of large houses and three churches built between 1890 and 1950.","why_significant":"The district shows how a rural colonial road became an upscale suburban corridor after the Westhampton Park streetcar line opened in 1901. Unlike grid-plan streetcar suburbs, it grew organically, lot by lot, with houses designed by skilled architects in a wide range of early twentieth-century styles. The houses and churches retain a high degree of architectural integrity.","narrative":"Three Chopt Road in Richmond's Westhampton area is lined with large houses and three churches built between 1890 and 1950. The 1.3-mile corridor runs from Cary Street Road north to Bandy Road. It began as a colonial country road through farmland and changed after the Westhampton Park streetcar line opened in 1901, drawing wealthier Richmonders who wanted to leave the crowded city. Growth here followed no master plan. Houses went up singly or in small clusters on wooded lots from half an acre to two and a half acres, and the road still has few curbs or sidewalks. Architects designed most of the houses, producing a mix of Colonial Revival, Beaux Arts, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and other styles, some with gardens by landscape architects such as Charles Gillette. W. Duncan Lee designed many of them. The district also includes St. Stephen's Church and Green's Farm, both already listed, and a surviving stretch of the streetcar right-of-way. Its architecture and setting remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W. Duncan Lee; Neff & Thompson; landscape architect Charles Gillette (garden)","architectural_style":"Federal, Gothic Revival, Beaux Arts, Classical Revival, Colonial and Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Bungalow/Craftsman, International Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses and churches remain in residential and religious use; the historic integrity of the setting is described as largely intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.596839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/6831/41683171/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/12000520.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000520/f9e538b7dc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000520/f9e538b7dc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nambul","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Chopt_Road_Historic_District_Residence.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nambul</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:Three_Chopt_Road_Historic_District_Residence.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683171","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Chopt_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16901624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/three-chopt-road-historic-district-12000520/"}