{"nrhp_refnum":"12000903","name":"Holliday Lake State Park","other_names":["Holiday Lake State Park","VDHR No. 006-0051","Holiday Lake Recreational Area"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2759 State Park Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Appomattox","county":"Appomattox County","state":"VA","lat":37.39576874300005,"lon":-78.6388721767913,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 255-acre state park district near Appomattox, Virginia, centered on a 150-acre manmade lake within the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest, developed in the New Deal era as one of four recreational demonstration areas.","why_significant":"The park is argued to be significant as one of four Virginia recreational development areas built by the Forest Service with CCC and WPA labor during the Great Depression. Although not held to National Park Service design standards, it shares features such as a long entry drive, a lake as organizing element, and structures of natural materials. Surviving 1930s resources include a log picnic shelter, well house, dam, culverts and retaining wall.","narrative":"Holliday Lake State Park occupies about 255 acres in the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest in Appomattox County, Virginia. Its center is a 150-acre manmade lake, reached by a long entry drive that follows the land's contours. The park began as one of four recreational development areas created by the Virginia Division of Forestry, working with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. It was not built to strict National Park Service standards, yet it shares their approach: separate activity areas, a water feature as the organizing element, and buildings of natural materials. Surviving historic resources include a Rustic log picnic shelter from the 1930s, a brick well house of about 1939, the dam, spillway and bridge, slate drainage culverts, a rubble retaining wall and the circulation system. Campground, offices, restrooms, boathouses and residences added from the 1970s onward are counted as noncontributing. The park became Holliday Lake State Park in 1972 and remains a recreation area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Virginia Division of Forestry, with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA)","architectural_style":"Other/Rustic; Other/Post-Modern","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operating state park with campground, picnic areas, beach, boating and trails; many later buildings from the 1970s to 2007 are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.573106-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/6785/41678526/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/12000903.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000903/25dbc8454b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000903/25dbc8454b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holliday_Lake_State_Park_3834.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</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:Holliday_Lake_State_Park_3834.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678526","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holliday_Lake_State_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5881346"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/appomattox-county/holliday-lake-state-park-12000903/"}