{"nrhp_refnum":"74002100","name":"Mason House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Guilford off VA 658","address_restricted":false,"city":"Guilford","county":"Accomack County","state":"VA","lat":37.83364609700004,"lon":-75.65352874599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-bay, story-and-a-half brick farmhouse with a center-passage plan on the north bank of Guilford Creek, near Guilford in Accomack County, Virginia, built in the first half of the eighteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare example of Jacobean-to-Georgian transitional architecture. Its brick-paneled front and rear walls with glazed-header diaper work are described as unique in Virginia. Interior features such as the closed-string stair and exposed beaded ceiling joists combine seventeenth-century and classical elements.","narrative":"Built in the first half of the eighteenth century near Guilford Creek in Accomack County, this small brick farmhouse has three bays, a story and a half, and a center-passage plan. Its brickwork is the main reason for its recognition. The foundations are laid in English bond, the walls above in Flemish bond, and corner pilasters and raised brick around windows, doors and cornices divide the front and rear walls into recessed panels filled with glazed-header diaper patterns. The nomination describes this combination as unique among Virginia colonial buildings, though common in seventeenth-century England. Inside, a closed-string stair with turned balusters and a molded pulvinated frieze, along with exposed beaded ceiling joists, mixes older and more classical features. The land was bought by Richard Hinnaman in 1673 and passed to William Andrews in 1722, after which the house was probably built. Later changes include early-nineteenth-century doors and windows and a late-nineteenth-century frame wing. Interiors have suffered from misuse and storage.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Jacobean-Georgian transitional","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair; interiors damaged by past misuse and used for storage of livestock feeds; essentially unaltered apart from early-19th-century interior changes and a late-19th-century frame wing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.955176-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/6792/41679207/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002100.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002100/5a2f4c35f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002100/5a2f4c35f2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"unknown HABS photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mason_House_HABS_VA1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">unknown HABS photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mason_House_HABS_VA1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679207","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_House_(Guilford,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14692179"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/accomack-county/mason-house-74002100/"}