{"nrhp_refnum":"69000230","name":"Eppington","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of jct. of VA 621 and 602","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winterpock","county":"Chesterfield County","state":"VA","lat":37.30000473250004,"lon":-77.70638779441714,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Eppington is a late 1760s plantation house in the Winterpock vicinity of Chesterfield County, Virginia, built by Francis Eppes. It has a three-bay, two-and-a-half story central block with flanking one-story wings.","why_significant":"The house is tied to Thomas Jefferson's family: Francis Eppes and his wife raised Jefferson's two daughters while Jefferson was Minister to France. Architecturally, its main block with lower wings shows the shift in eighteenth-century Georgian design toward three- and five-part Palladian-inspired compositions.","narrative":"Eppington is a plantation house near Winterpock in Chesterfield County, Virginia, built in the late 1760s by Francis Eppes on land inherited from his father, Richard Eppes of Bermuda Hundred. The building has a three-bay, two-and-a-half story central block with a hipped roof, dormers and a modillioned cornice, flanked by one-story wings. Inside, a cross-hall carries a stairway across the front, and paneling covers the chimney walls in the living and dining rooms. Eppes was a cousin and brother-in-law of Martha Wayles Jefferson, and he and his wife raised Thomas Jefferson's two daughters after their mother died in 1782. Lucy Jefferson is buried here, and Mary Jefferson married John Wayles Eppes, later a congressman and senator. The house also illustrates a mid-eighteenth-century move away from compact Georgian plans toward three-part designs inspired by Palladian models, similar to the Randolph-Semple House and Belle Isle.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Francis Eppes","architectural_style":"Georgian (three-part composition with central block and lower wings)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in fair condition, with integrity marked as altered; the first-floor front has board and batten siding and a deep porch, and a two-story rear ell was added.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.34501-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/6801/41680170/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000230.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000230/bfb602830b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000230/bfb602830b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"James Shelton32","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eppington_Plantation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">James Shelton32</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:Eppington_Plantation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680170","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppington","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712289"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/chesterfield-county/eppington-69000230/"}