{"nrhp_refnum":"70000866","name":"Wythe House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W side of the Palace Green","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamsburg (Independent City)","county":"Williamsburg","state":"VA","lat":37.272036483500074,"lon":-76.70277291387097,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-04-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1970-04-15","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Georgian town house on Palace Green in Williamsburg, Virginia, next to Bruton Parish Church, built about 1750 by Richard Talliaferro.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Williamsburg's most handsome colonial house and one of Virginia's and the nation's finest Georgian town houses, noted for its lines and brickwork. It was home to George Wythe from about 1755 to 1791. Wythe was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first professor of law in an American college, and his students included Jefferson, Marshall and Monroe.","narrative":"Overlooking Palace Green beside Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, this two-story brick house measures about 54 by 39 feet and follows the standard eighteenth-century double-pile plan, with a central hall and four rooms. Built around 1750 by planter Richard Talliaferro, it has Flemish bond brickwork above the water table, rubbed and gauged brick detailing, and a low hipped roof. Its design is based on a plate in William Salmon's Palladio Londinensis of 1734. The interior is plain apart from an open-string walnut stair in the central hall. George Wythe lived here from about 1755 until 1791. He sat in the House of Burgesses, served as mayor, signed the Declaration of Independence and taught law at the College of William and Mary, where his students included Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and James Monroe. Bruton Parish restored the house between 1926 and 1931, and Colonial Williamsburg acquired it in 1937. The house is described as one of the nation's finest Georgian town houses.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Richard Talliaferro (builder, c. 1750)","architectural_style":"Georgian town house, double-pile central hall plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained in excellent condition by Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.; restored 1926-1931 and changed very little. Outbuildings are reconstructed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.717213-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/6791/41679178/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000866_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000866/acb960f22b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000866/acb960f22b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Rob Shenk from Great Falls, VA, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_George_Wythe_House_(8017084861).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob Shenk from Great Falls, VA, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_George_Wythe_House_(8017084861).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000925","name":"Williamsburg Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/williamsburg-historic-district-66000925/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679178","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wythe_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8040653"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/williamsburg/wythe-house-70000866/"}