{"nrhp_refnum":"72001393","name":"Dranesville Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11919 Leesburg Pike","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dranesville","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":39.00804198000003,"lon":-77.36027238099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-11-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A vernacular clapboard tavern building at 11919 Leesburg Pike near Dranesville, Fairfax County, Virginia, begun around 1830 as two log structures and enlarged around 1850 and 1893. It was moved about one hundred feet south in 1968 for road widening.","why_significant":"The tavern was a wagon stand serving teamsters on the Leesburg Pike, tying it to the turnpike trade that linked eastern markets with western settlers. Its three building phases give a compact study of nineteenth-century vernacular architecture, including Greek Revival alterations. It also stands as a vestige of the region's social and commercial history.","narrative":"Dranesville Tavern, on the Leesburg Pike in Fairfax County, began around 1830 as a two-story dog-trot log house joined to a one-story log kitchen. It served the wagon trade supplying the Piedmont region of northern Virginia, and most records name Sanford Cockerille as builder. Around 1850 the building was enlarged, a second floor was added above the kitchen, and the exterior was clapboarded in a vernacular Greek Revival character. In 1893 the rear porch was enclosed and the front porch received turned posts and scroll-work brackets. The tavern was a wagon stand catering to teamsters on a busy turnpike, and it later saw military traffic during the Civil War. Railroads eventually drew trade away from the turnpikes. The Fairfax County Park Authority acquired it in 1968 and moved it about one hundred feet south to make room for a wider Route 7. Its layered construction offers a clear view of vernacular building evolution and regional commerce.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Sanford Cockerille (most records point to him as builder)","architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival (c. 1850 alterations to an earlier log dog-trot building)","criteria":[],"status_note":"At nomination the building was unoccupied and undergoing restoration; condition was listed as fair and altered, and it had been moved. A later newspaper clipping describes it as nearly fully restored but empty.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.046034-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/6804/41680494/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/72001393.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001393/8d88b439b2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001393/8d88b439b2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"David D'Agostino","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dranesville_Tavern.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David D'Agostino</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:Dranesville_Tavern.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680494","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dranesville_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5305800"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/dranesville-tavern-72001393/"}