{"nrhp_refnum":"70000887","name":"Pembroke Manor (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of jct. of Rtes. 627, 647, and U.S. 58","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.852367687000026,"lon":-76.13355505299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pembroke Manor is a Georgian brick mansion in Virginia Beach (formerly Princess Anne County), Virginia, built around 1764 and assumed to be the work of Captain Jonathan Saunders. It is the only surviving early structure of the original Pembroke Manor tract.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Pembroke is a significant but overlooked example of colonial Virginia Georgian architecture. It closely resembles the Wythe House and relates to a group of mansions often attributed to Richard Taliaferro. It also preserves ties to the Thoroughgood Grand Patent of 1635 and to the Saunders family.","narrative":"Pembroke Manor is a brick Georgian mansion in Virginia Beach, built around 1764 and assumed to be the work of Captain Jonathan Saunders. It is the only early structure left from the original Pembroke Manor tract, which grew out of the Grand Patent acquired by Adam Thoroughgood in 1635. The walls are laid in Flemish bond, and the house has a hipped roof, a modillion cornice and a plan of two rooms on each side of a central hall, like the Wythe House. Initialed bricks on the north side carry the date 1764. Later changes include replaced window sash, lowered second-floor sills and a twentieth-century door surround. Little original woodwork survives, though what remains is plain and fine. Saunders's son John, a loyalist, lost the estate, and Thomas Jefferson, as governor, sold it in 1781. The house is considered a forgotten colonial Virginia mansion related to designs often attributed to Richard Taliaferro. Housing development now surrounds it.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":"Assumed built by Captain Jonathan Saunders; design related to the group often attributed to Richard Taliaferro","architectural_style":"Virginia Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair and altered, with the interior considerably changed and the setting described as ruined by housing development. The house stands in a traffic circle. Owned by a historical society.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.718591-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6839/41683983/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000887/ba6e8278d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000887/ba6e8278d4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"SueCorcoran","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pembroke_Manor_Va_Beach_9_2012_(3).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">SueCorcoran</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:Pembroke_Manor_Va_Beach_9_2012_(3).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683983","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_Manor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16898182"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/pembroke-manor-additional-documentation-70000887/"}