{"nrhp_refnum":"71000983","name":"Pinewoods","other_names":["Warbuton House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1.4 mi. SW of jct. of VA 613 and 614","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lightfoot","county":"James City County","state":"VA","lat":37.271729413500054,"lon":-76.82681694182435,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pinewoods, also called the Warburton House, is a one-and-a-half story brick planter's house of the late seventeenth century near Lightfoot in James City County, Virginia. It sits in a small isolated clearing at the end of a wooded lane.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a typical Virginia planter's house of the late seventeenth century. Its early colonial brickwork and unusual T-shaped chimney stacks are noted as architecturally distinctive, although fire and later additions have reduced its antique appearance.","narrative":"Pinewoods, known historically as the Warburton House, is a one-and-a-half story brick dwelling near Lightfoot in James City County, Virginia. It represents a typical planter's house of the late seventeenth century. Fire destroyed parts of the building, so only the brick portions are original. Those walls show early colonial brickwork, laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers above the water table and in English bond below, with deep segmental arches over the openings. Its two T-shaped chimney stacks are set back slightly from the end walls to form a beveled ridge near the roofline, a treatment common on comparable English houses but rare in America. Local records were destroyed, so little is known of its early history. It is believed a Warburton built it, and Thomas Warburton patented 200 acres in the county in 1664. The house stands in a small clearing at the end of a wooded lane, and the family still owns it.","period_of_significance":"17th Century","architect_builder":"Believed built by a Warburton; no architect named","architectural_style":"Late seventeenth-century Virginia planter's house (early colonial)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair and altered; remaining original brick fabric is described as well preserved and maintained. The property is privately owned by the Warburton family and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.185394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/6813/41681369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/71000983.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000983/f0f43b88e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000983/f0f43b88e7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warburton_dependency,_Williamsburg,_James_City_County,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warburton_dependency,_Williamsburg,_James_City_County,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewoods_(Lightfoot,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713066"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/james-city-county/pinewoods-71000983/"}