{"nrhp_refnum":"70000804","name":"Marmion","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of jct. of SR 649 and 609","address_restricted":false,"city":"Comorn","county":"King George County","state":"VA","lat":38.30982585600006,"lon":-77.21156740337092,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Marmion is a two-story frame house with four surrounding frame dependencies, located near Comorn in King George County, Virginia. Parts of it are traditionally tied to a house built soon after 1670, with the main building period in the early eighteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination points to its architecture: an asymmetrical, informal farmhouse that grew in stages and sits at the center of a formal quadrangle of outbuildings. It also notes the interior's early eighteenth-century paneling and a famous elaborate room, whose woodwork is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has stayed with the Fitzhugh and Lewis families throughout its existence.","narrative":"Marmion is a two-story frame house with a clipped gable roof near Comorn in King George County, Virginia. Its bays are placed asymmetrically, and its exposed brick chimneys, laid in Flemish bond with patterned glazed headers, give it an informal farmhouse look. Four frame dependencies stand at the corners around the house: a smokehouse, a dairy, a kitchen and an office. The kitchen has brick nogging and a T-shaped chimney laid in English bond. Tradition holds that Colonel William Fitzhugh built a house here soon after 1670 that was later incorporated into the present structure, which grew in several stages. Most of the remaining interior paneling dates from the early eighteenth century. The southeast room once held what is described as probably the most elaborate paneled and painted room in Virginia, and its woodwork is now displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The property has remained in the hands of the Fitzhugh and Lewis families.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Traditionally Colonel William Fitzhugh built an original house soon after 1670","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, privately owned and used as a private residence, with preservation work in progress; described as altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.050106-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/6814/41681422/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000804.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000804/b5f06a7c15-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000804/b5f06a7c15-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmion,_State_Route_649_vicinity,_Comorn_vicinity_(King_George_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmion,_State_Route_649_vicinity,_Comorn_vicinity_(King_George_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681422","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmion_(Comorn,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712787"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-george-county/marmion-70000804/"}