{"nrhp_refnum":"73002229","name":"Pleasant Hall (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["Vdhr #134-0027"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5184 Singleton Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.82778797700007,"lon":-76.16224548099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-01-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay Georgian style brick house at 5184 Princess Anne Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia, near the old crossroads town of Kempsville. It was built in 1779 by Peter Singleton.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of second period Georgian architecture, with a refined exterior and interior woodwork of exceptional quality. Few Virginia houses of its age retain so much original decorative and structural fabric. Its fully paneled parlor with Corinthian pilasters is rare in colonial Virginia, and its king post truss roof framing is unusual. It is also practically the last early vestige of the court house town of Kempsville.","narrative":"Pleasant Hall is a brick Georgian house at 5184 Princess Anne Road in Virginia Beach, built in 1779 by Peter Singleton, a wealthy Princess Anne County landowner. A dated brick below the water table on the front wall confirms the year. The house has two stories, five bays, a shallow gable roof, Flemish bond walls, and a modillion and dentil cornice. Inside, a center hall with a Doric-pilastered arch leads to a fully paneled parlor whose chimneypiece carries full-height Corinthian pilasters, an order rarely used in colonial Virginia interiors. The attic shows unusual king post truss framing. Almost no original woodwork has been lost. Singleton also gave the land behind the house for the Princess Anne County Court House, built in the 1780s. The house now survives as practically the last early reminder of the old court house town of Kempsville, surrounded by suburban development but still set among large shade trees and a broad front lawn.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (specific date 1779)","architect_builder":"Peter Singleton (builder/original owner)","architectural_style":"Georgian (second period Georgian)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and unaltered, on its original site. It was occupied and used as a private residence at the time of nomination, with a west chimney stack rebuilt after hurricane damage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.187885-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/6839/41683985/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002229/8b093881d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002229/8b093881d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"SueCorcoran","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_Hall_Overland_Rd_Va_Beach_9_2012.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:Pleasant_Hall_Overland_Rd_Va_Beach_9_2012.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683985","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16898623"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/pleasant-hall-additional-documentation-73002229/"}