{"nrhp_refnum":"73002043","name":"Criss Cross","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of New Kent off VA 608","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Kent","county":"New Kent County","state":"VA","lat":37.50291938250004,"lon":-77.02692017849738,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Criss Cross is a brick, T-shaped late seventeenth-century house on a knoll amid fields and woodland near New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia, traditionally built by George Poindexter about 1690.","why_significant":"It is described as one of only four surviving Tudor-Stuart style structures in Virginia with a porch projection, alongside Foster's Castle, the Mathew Jones House and Bacon's Castle. The interior keeps rare period framing and details, including a carved post and a hall-porch door said to be the only such survivals in the state. Despite many alterations, a 1953 restoration returned the building to its general original appearance.","narrative":"Criss Cross is a brick house on a gentle knoll surrounded by cultivated fields and woodland near New Kent. Tradition holds that George Poindexter built it about 1690, and a rear wing was added around 1790. The T-shaped house has a two-story, single-bay porch projection at the center of the front, and its original walls are Flemish bond brick with glazed headers. Nineteenth-century changes replaced the brick gables with wood and raised parts of the building, but a 1953 restoration under architect Harden DeV. Pratt returned it to roughly its original appearance. It is considered one of only four surviving Tudor-Stuart style buildings in Virginia with a porch projection. Inside, the original structural framing survives, including a chamfered summer beam, a post carved with a scrolled heart design, and double doors between the porch chamber and hall. The form describes the carvings and door as the only such survivals in the state. The house was reportedly used as a commissary during the Civil War.","period_of_significance":"17th Century (c. 1690)","architect_builder":"George Poindexter (traditional builder); Harden DeV. Pratt, restoration architect, 1953","architectural_style":"Tudor-Stuart style with porch projection","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, altered, on its original site; occupied as a private residence and restored in 1953.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.47899-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/6820/41682040/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002043.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002043/fbeaa71d01-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002043/fbeaa71d01-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Criss-Cross,_State_Route_617_vicinity,_New_Kent_vicinity_(New_Kent_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Criss-Cross,_State_Route_617_vicinity,_New_Kent_vicinity_(New_Kent_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682040","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criss_Cross_(New_Kent,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5186084"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/new-kent-county/criss-cross-73002043/"}