{"nrhp_refnum":"73002203","name":"Margots","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Tettington off VA 621","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tettington","county":"Charles City County","state":"VA","lat":37.30978281900005,"lon":-76.88816252781015,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-08-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick house on a wooded hill above the Chickahominy River in northeast Charles City County, Virginia, dated on stylistic evidence to the late 17th or early 18th century. Its builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Margots typifies the solidity of the few surviving circa 1700 medium-sized houses of Tidewater Virginia. It has features not found on other houses of the period, notably glazed-header English bond brickwork that produces a striated pattern on the main facades, which has no parallel in Virginia. Its closed-string stair also has interesting period details.","narrative":"Margots is a three-bay brick house on a wooded hill above the Chickahominy River in northeast Charles City County, Virginia. Its construction date is undocumented, but stylistic evidence places it in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The exterior is laid in English bond, with all headers on the east and west facades glazed, giving a horizontal striped pattern that the nomination says has no parallel in the state. The house also has T-shaped chimney shafts, an unusual splayed and shouldered exterior chimney, and a closed-string stair with a pulvinated frieze. A frame second story and an east room were added in the nineteenth century, and doors, sash, arches and mantels have been replaced, but much of the original brickwork and some interior trim survive. Early records were lost during the Civil War, so its history is hazy. The property has been called Clay Bank, Gravel Hill and Eagle Lodge. The house is unoccupied and basically sound, and was sold to a state agency in 1973.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied but in basically sound condition; the form describes it as altered and in fair condition, with additions of inferior quality.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.107839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6799/41679989/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002203/3b46ee2967-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002203/3b46ee2967-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MARGOTS,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MARGOTS,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margots","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charles-city-county/margots-73002203/"}