{"nrhp_refnum":"66000829","name":"Greenway Court","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 mi. S of White Post on VA 277","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Post","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.04623506300004,"lon":-78.1190105596591,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-10-09","areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Greenway Court is the site of the frontier estate of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, about 1.2 miles south of White Post in Clarke County, Virginia. It includes a surviving stone Land Office (probably built 1762), a log smokehouse and an 1828 brick farmhouse.","why_significant":"It was the wilderness manor of Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the five million acre Northern Neck of Virginia. Fairfax collected quit rents and kept land records at the Land Office. The young George Washington worked for him as a surveyor from 1749 to 1751 and probably kept his instruments there.","narrative":"Greenway Court, about 1.2 miles south of White Post in Clarke County, Virginia, was the frontier manor of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, proprietor of the five million acre Northern Neck grant. Fairfax laid out his residence here in 1747 and lived on the estate until his death in 1781, the only peer to make his chief residence in America. His story-and-a-half manor house is gone; it was torn down after its roof collapsed in 1834. What remains is a thick-walled limestone Land Office, probably built in 1762, where quit rents were received and land records kept, and where George Washington, hired as a surveyor from 1749 to 1751, probably stored his instruments. A log smokehouse with a conical roof stands nearby, and a brick farmhouse from about 1828 is still used as a residence. The Land Office was restored in 1930 but has since deteriorated. The nominated area covers about five acres.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (specific dates 1748, 1781)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The original manor house was torn down after its roof collapsed in 1834. The Land Office, restored in 1930, and the smokehouse have deteriorated from disuse, and the 1828 brick farmhouse is a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.489861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/6790/41679011/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/66000829_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000829/bb9ab82522-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000829/bb9ab82522-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Henry Howe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenwayCourt.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Howe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenwayCourt.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679011","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenway_Court,_Virginia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/greenway-court-66000829/"}