{"nrhp_refnum":"69000325","name":"Kenmore","other_names":["Millbrook"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1201 Washington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fredericksburg (Independent City)","county":"Fredericksburg","state":"VA","lat":38.30417022100005,"lon":-77.46635514789348,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-06-04","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1970-04-15","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kenmore (also called Millbrook) is an eighteenth-century brick house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia, built by Fielding Lewis for his bride Betty Washington after he acquired the land in 1752.","why_significant":"The plain exterior contrasts with exceptional Rococo and Adamesque plasterwork on the ceilings and chimney pieces of the first-floor rooms, considered among the finest colonial work in the country. It is also known as the home of Fielding Lewis, a Revolutionary patriot who oversaw the Fredericksburg small arms factory.","narrative":"Kenmore is a brick house at 1201 Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg, Virginia, built by Fielding Lewis for his bride, Betty Washington, sister of George Washington, after Lewis acquired the land in 1752. The two-story, five-bay entrance facade is plain but well proportioned, with a modillioned cornice and a jerkin head roof. The garden front has a small one-story pedimented Doric portico, and the walls are laid in Flemish bond. Inside, the first-floor drawing room, dining room and library hold remarkable plaster ceilings and chimney pieces combining Rococo and Adamesque forms. The library ceiling design can be traced to a plate in Batty Langley's builder's treasury. Such work was very rare in eighteenth-century American houses. Lewis was also a Revolutionary patriot, appointed in 1775 as commissioner of the Fredericksburg small arms factory, and he invested much of his own money in it. The house has been carefully restored, its dependencies reconstructed, and it operates as a museum with eighteenth-century furniture.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Fielding Lewis (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, carefully restored, little altered, occupied and open to the public as a museum; the two flanking dependencies have been reconstructed on their original foundations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.074866-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/6808/41680859/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000325.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000325/bfca3e70af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000325/bfca3e70af-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cowpie21","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenmore_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Cowpie21</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:Kenmore_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"71001053","name":"Fredericksburg Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/fredericksburg-historic-district-71001053/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680859","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmore_(Fredericksburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1738778"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fredericksburg/kenmore-69000325/"}