{"nrhp_refnum":"69000015","name":"Appomattox Manor","other_names":["Charles City"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cedar Lane, at confluence of James and Appomattox Rivers","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hopewell (Independent City)","county":"Hopewell","state":"VA","lat":37.31690441500007,"lon":-77.27699124899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-10-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Appomattox Manor is a frame plantation house at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers in Hopewell, Virginia, on the site of an earlier house, possibly built in 1751 or 1768 by members of the Eppes family.","why_significant":"The site's title descends in an unbroken line from a 1635 patent to Captain Francis Eppes down to the present day. General Grant had his headquarters in the house from June 1864 to April 1865. Abraham Lincoln used the north drawing room as an office on several occasions between 1864 and 1865.","narrative":"Appomattox Manor is a frame house with a typical center-hall plan, set where the Appomattox River meets the James River in what is now Hopewell, Virginia. It replaced an earlier house on the same site. The date of construction is uncertain, either 1751 by William Eppes or 1768 by his nephew Richard Eppes, and Richard's grandson added to it several times in the later nineteenth century. Little eighteenth-century interior trim survives. Remains of seventeenth-century structures lie along the riverbank, and the kitchen in the yard probably served an earlier house. The Eppes family held the land until 1916, when most of it was sold and the city of Hopewell grew on the farm. The property is significant for its unbroken line of title from a 1635 patent to Captain Francis Eppes. During the Civil War, General Grant made his headquarters here from June 1864 to April 1865, and Abraham Lincoln used the north drawing room as an office on several visits.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Eppes (1751) or Richard Eppes (1768), as possible builders; later additions by Richard Eppes, grandson","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; present use is a museum. A 1975 update says the property is not accessible to the public.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.637602-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/6813/41681314/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000015.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000015/17484e0165-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000015/17484e0165-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Mathew Benjamin Brady","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appomattox_Manor_-_NARA_-_529302.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mathew Benjamin Brady</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appomattox_Manor_-_NARA_-_529302.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79000248","name":"City Point Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/city-point-historic-district-79000248/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681314","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appomattox_Manor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4781660"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/hopewell/appomattox-manor-69000015/"}