{"nrhp_refnum":"12000547","name":"Briarwood","other_names":["Bingham House","Vdhr # 134-0600"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1500 Southwick Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.86274783700003,"lon":-76.01333522199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Briarwood is a two-story Tudor Revival brick house built in 1932 at 1500 Southwick Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on a four-acre sloping lot overlooking Linkhorn Bay. It has a contributing two-bay garage on the same lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the largest and grandest surviving Tudor Revival house in Virginia Beach and retains almost all of its original features. It was designed by regional architect Wickham C. Taylor and built by Clayton Q. Nugent. It also reflects the 1920s-30s trend of wealthy Northerners building large homes in the newly developed resort town.","narrative":"Briarwood is a roughly 6,000-square-foot Tudor Revival house completed in 1932 on a sloping four-acre lot facing Linkhorn Bay in Virginia Beach. Architect Wickham C. Taylor designed it for James and Frances Bingham, and Clayton Q. Nugent built it. The Flemish bond brick walls have herringbone brick patterns and false half-timbering. Steep slate roofs, three corbelled chimneys with decorative pots, and leaded diamond-pane bay windows complete the exterior, including a two-story rear bay with a doorway. Inside, dark stained paneling, rough-hewn ceiling beams, and hand-pegged wide-board floors survive. A two-story entry hall has a turned wood stair and balcony. A contributing brick garage matches the house. The property was listed for its architecture. It is described as the most prominent Tudor Revival house in Virginia Beach, and it reflects the building boom of the 1920s and 1930s, when wealthy Northerners built large homes in the growing resort town.","period_of_significance":"1932-1959","architect_builder":"Taylor, Wickham C. (architect); Nugent, Clayton (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; the interior and exterior retain most original features, including the slate roof, copper gutters, wood paneling and hand-pegged floors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.426177-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6839/41683989/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/12000547.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000547/f140f23801-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000547/f140f23801-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"PumpkinSky","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gated_Entrance_to_Briarwood.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">PumpkinSky</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:Gated_Entrance_to_Briarwood.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briarwood_(Virginia_Beach,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16846366"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/briarwood-12000547/"}