{"nrhp_refnum":"69000236","name":"Mayfield Cottage","other_names":["Mayfield"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Central State Hospital Grounds","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburg","county":"Dinwiddie County","state":"VA","lat":37.21403465000003,"lon":-77.44749170199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mayfield Cottage (historic name Mayfield) is a story-and-a-half brick colonial plantation house of the mid-eighteenth century, on the Central State Hospital grounds near Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.","why_significant":"The form calls it one of the architecturally outstanding colonial plantation houses of Virginia, with fine Flemish bond brickwork, a jerkin-head roof and high-quality interior paneling. It is believed to be the oldest existing brick house in Dinwiddie County. It also lay near Confederate defence lines (Fort Whitworth and Fort Gregg) that fell on April 2, 1865, while General Lee watched the fighting from the property.","narrative":"Mayfield Cottage is a mid-eighteenth-century brick plantation house on the grounds of Central State Hospital near Petersburg, Virginia. Though only a story and a half tall, it was built on a mansion scale, with Flemish bond brickwork, gauged flat arches, a beveled water table and a rare jerkin-head roof. Its central hall runs the full depth of the house, and the stairway sits in its own room. Some interior partitions were removed and the south windows and dormers were altered, but the house remains largely intact. It is believed to be the oldest brick house in Dinwiddie County. Early owners included Robert Ruffin and Thomas Tabb Bolling; in 1882 the property passed to the state for the hospital. In April 1865 Confederate defence lines on the land, Fort Whitworth and Fort Gregg, fell to Union troops while General Robert E. Lee watched from a nearby bluff. The house was long hidden from view by hospital buildings.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Virginia plantation house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and in fair condition. A later grant application describes a restoration project, and says the house was moved to its present location.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.602563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/6804/41680421/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000236.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000236/3df7050632-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000236/3df7050632-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nickmorgan2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mayfield_cottage.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nickmorgan2</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mayfield_cottage.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680421","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfield_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712807"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/dinwiddie-county/mayfield-cottage-69000236/"}