{"nrhp_refnum":"70000794","name":"Abingdon Glebe House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of jct. of U.S. 17 and VA 615","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gloucester","county":"Gloucester County","state":"VA","lat":37.37675276050004,"lon":-76.53916972319979,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A T-shaped brick glebe house (parsonage) of Abingdon Parish near Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia, standing by 1724 and thought to date from around 1700.","why_significant":"It is an early example of formal design in Virginia architecture, with unusual hipped-roof end pavilions that one scholar considered the earliest of that roof form in America. It is also one of fewer than a dozen positively identified early Virginia glebe houses, and one of the better preserved.","narrative":"Abingdon Glebe House is a T-shaped brick house near Gloucester, Virginia, built as the parsonage for Abingdon Parish. It was standing by 1724, when the parish rector mentioned the glebe in a report to the Bishop of London, and scholars generally place its construction around 1700, though the oldest part may be late seventeenth century. The facade is laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers, and one-story hipped-roof pavilions flank the central block, which has a steep gable roof with dormers. Architectural writers have called it an eminent transitional house and an early example of formal Virginia design, and one credited the pavilion roofs as the earliest of their form in America. The parish owned the property until the legislature confiscated it in 1802 during the Disestablishment. Fewer than a dozen early Virginia glebe houses have been positively identified. A renovation around 1954 replaced most interior woodwork, but the rear ell retains original doors, window reveals and a bolection mantel.","period_of_significance":"17th and 18th centuries (boxes checked; no specific dates given)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional house with hipped roof; early formal design in Virginia architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, occupied as a private residence, and extensively renovated around 1954 after being unoccupied and decayed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.662021-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/6809/41680926/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000794.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000794/7cab89dee0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000794/7cab89dee0-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abingdon_Glebe_House,_U.S._Route_17_vicinity,_Gloucester_vicinity_Gloucester_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abingdon_Glebe_House,_U.S._Route_17_vicinity,_Gloucester_vicinity_Gloucester_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680926","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon_Glebe_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4667829"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/gloucester-county/abingdon-glebe-house-70000794/"}