{"nrhp_refnum":"69000266","name":"Pear Valley","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off (South) of VA 628","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eastville","county":"Northampton County","state":"VA","lat":37.39679220150006,"lon":-75.9224876341348,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-11-12","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2013-02-27","areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pear Valley is a small one-bay frame house with a Flemish-bond brick gable end, located near Eastville in Northampton County, Virginia. Historians place its construction between the 1640s and the 1680s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare surviving example of a small medieval yeoman's cottage, virtually unchanged from its original appearance. Its significance rests on its value as the surviving example of its type rather than on an exact construction date. The high-pitched roof, glazed-header brickwork, pyramidal chimney and surviving interior features contribute to its value.","narrative":"Pear Valley is a small, one-bay frame house near Eastville in Northampton County, Virginia, on the Eastern Shore. Its brick gable end is laid in Flemish bond and decorated with diagonally placed glazed header bricks. A pyramidal chimney with tiled splays rises above two small upstairs windows. Inside, a chamfered plate, chamfered floor joists and a post survive. The framing is mostly original, though weatherboard has been replaced on two of the three frame walls, and one of the two original sidewall doors no longer exists. Historians date construction anywhere from the 1640s to the 1680s. The nomination treats the exact date as unimportant. Its case for listing is that the house is a rare surviving example of a small medieval yeoman's cottage, virtually unchanged from its original appearance. The high-pitched roof, glazed-header pattern, pyramidal chimney and remaining interior elements all add to that value. At the time of nomination the building was unoccupied and used for storage.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Medieval yeoman's cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied, in fair condition and altered, with a present use as a storage house.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.846328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/6822/41682254/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000266.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000266/d7c4c94453-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000266/d7c4c94453-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Alexiskferia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pear_Valley.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexiskferia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pear_Valley.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682254","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear_Valley","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7157972"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/northampton-county/pear-valley-69000266/"}