{"nrhp_refnum":"13001165","name":"Laurel Meadow","other_names":["DHR No. 127-0304"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1640 Bramwell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.48746893200007,"lon":-77.50680794899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2014-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Laurel Meadow is a farm with a 1½-story frame dwelling, a one-room schoolhouse and a barn, on State Route 643 in eastern Hanover County near Mechanicsville, Virginia. The house dates to the early nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Criterion C significance at the local level. The house is an excellent example of a hall-parlor-plan dwelling in eastern Hanover County and an informative example of a dwelling that evolved through the nineteenth century. It is unusual for its central boxed staircase, which originally had exterior access. The schoolhouse is a rare surviving private school building, and the land was a Civil War camp site.","narrative":"Laurel Meadow is a farm in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, centered on a 1½-story frame house built in the early nineteenth century. The house began as a hall-parlor-plan dwelling on a raised brick basement, with three gable dormers and a pedimented porch. Shed-roofed additions in the later nineteenth century and more recent changes expanded it. An unusual central boxed staircase originally had an exterior door. South of the house stand a mid-nineteenth-century one-room private schoolhouse and a barn thought to date from soon after the Civil War. A relocated tenant house and corncrib, moved from the bottomland, are counted as noncontributing. The property was listed for its architecture, as a good local example of a hall-parlor house that changed over time. It also has Civil War associations: troops camped here in 1862, and family tradition says Stonewall Jackson spent a night in the house, though one account disputes that. About ten acres remain, with two fields still cultivated.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820 -- ca. 1890","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is a single dwelling with agricultural storage; two fields remain in cultivation and the owners are restoring a garden.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.510809-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/6811/41681148/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000827.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/13001165/ac90ffe252-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/13001165/ac90ffe252-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurel_Meadow_from_the_south.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurel_Meadow_from_the_south.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Meadow_(Richmond,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16894023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/laurel-meadow-13001165/"}