{"nrhp_refnum":"70000809","name":"Hawkwood","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Gordonsville off U.S. 15","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gordonsville","county":"Louisa County","state":"VA","lat":38.01709516400004,"lon":-78.19646168422547,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hawkwood is a stuccoed brick country house in the Italian or Tuscan Villa style near Gordonsville in the Green Springs area of Louisa County, Virginia, designed in 1851 and completed by 1855 for planter Richard O. Morris.","why_significant":"It was designed by nationally prominent architect Alexander Jackson Davis and is one of only two surviving original Italian Villa designs out of the roughly twenty-five to thirty picturesque villas he created. Scholar Jane B. Davies noted its skillful handling of irregular masses and its arcaded veranda, which is unique among surviving Davis villas.","narrative":"Hawkwood is a stuccoed brick country house in Louisa County, Virginia, built in the Italian or Tuscan Villa style. Alexander Jackson Davis, a prominent New York architect, designed it in 1851 for Richard O. Morris, a planter interested in horticulture and scientific agriculture, and it was complete by 1855. A projecting two-story gabled pavilion with a round-arched opening and Palladian window forms the former entrance, flanked by one-story wings. An arcaded veranda wraps the south wing, and a three-story tower rises above it. Inside, an octagonal hall opens to the principal rooms through broad archways. The house sits on a knoll among boxwood and shade trees, placed to take in views of the rolling countryside. An earlier frame overseer's house nearby was given picturesque gables and bargeboards in the mid-nineteenth century. Of the twenty-five to thirty villas Davis designed, only a few survive, and Hawkwood is one of just two original Italian Villa works, notable especially for its arcaded veranda.","period_of_significance":"1854 - 1855","architect_builder":"Alexander Jackson Davis (architect); Richard O. Morris (commissioned the house)","architectural_style":"Italian or Tuscan Villa","criteria":[],"status_note":"At nomination in 1970 the house was occupied as a private residence in excellent condition and unaltered on its original site. A later HABS memorandum describes fire damage to the interior floors, with the brick walls surviving, before planned restoration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.706404-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6816/41681689/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000809.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000809/fadfc8f087-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000809/fadfc8f087-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawkwood_VA1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawkwood_VA1.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73002036","name":"Green Springs Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/green-springs-historic-district-73002036/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681689","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkwood_(Gordonsville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5685324"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/louisa-county/hawkwood-70000809/"}