{"nrhp_refnum":"69000235","name":"Burnt Quarter","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of jct. of Rtes. 627, 613, and 645","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dinwiddie","county":"Dinwiddie County","state":"VA","lat":37.13880235500005,"lon":-77.62490360810348,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Burnt Quarter is an eighteenth-century plantation house and farm near Dinwiddie in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, built in the third quarter of the 1700s, reportedly by Robert Coleman.","why_significant":"The property was the scene of the decisive Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865, when the house served as Union General Merritt's headquarters and as a military hospital. It is also one of the oldest continuously operated farms in the area, and the house ranks as one of the prominent colonial plantation dwellings in southside Virginia.","narrative":"Burnt Quarter is a plantation house in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, built in the mid-eighteenth century and altered over the following two centuries. The core rooms are early, while the hall was lengthened and a pantry and parlor were added in the nineteenth century. Interior woodwork reflects Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival periods, and much of the original furniture remains, including a Victorian parlor with rosewood furnishings. The name comes from a family tradition that Colonel Banastre Tarleton burned the grain quarter and outbuildings during the Revolution. The estate was chiefly a tobacco plantation, and early in the Civil War it supplied Southern armies. On April 1, 1865, the Battle of Five Forks was fought around it. The house was used as Union headquarters and a hospital, was struck by gunfire and a cannon ball, and its family portraits were slashed. The Union victory broke Lee's Petersburg line and forced the evacuation of Richmond.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (also 19th Century marked in the form's period list)","architect_builder":"Robert Coleman (named as builder of the present house)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival woodwork and trim","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; occupied as a private residence; the smokehouse is still in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.054737-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/6804/41680419/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000235.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000235/a6a218d55a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000235/a6a218d55a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnt_Quarter,_State_Route_613_vicinity,_Dinwiddie_vicinity_(Dinwiddie_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burnt_Quarter,_State_Route_613_vicinity,_Dinwiddie_vicinity_(Dinwiddie_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680419","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_Quarter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712111"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/dinwiddie-county/burnt-quarter-69000235/"}