{"nrhp_refnum":"74002123","name":"Oakland","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Montpelier","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montpelier","county":"Hanover County","state":"VA","lat":37.87513551550006,"lon":-77.66345078223733,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oakland is a private plantation house and farm north of Montpelier in Hanover County, Virginia. The original house was built in 1812 by the Nelson family and was rebuilt on its old foundations after a fire in 1898.","why_significant":"Oakland was the home and birthplace of Virginia novelist Thomas Nelson Page, who drew on its people, events and legends for much of his best work, including Two Little Confederates and Red Rock. Page became a leading literary voice of the South in the late nineteenth century and later served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy. He died at Oakland in 1922.","narrative":"Oakland is a plantation house and farm north of Montpelier in Hanover County, Virginia. The Nelson family built the first house in 1812 as a one-and-a-half-story farmhouse with a central hall, and it was enlarged several times in the early nineteenth century. Fire destroyed it in 1898, along with many Page and Nelson papers, and it was rebuilt on the same lines and foundations. The present house has a three-bay eastern section and a longer, irregular western wing, with white weatherboard walls, pedimented gables and dormers, and porches under the main roof. Its 1812 smokehouse and an office still stand nearby. The property is best known as the home and birthplace of novelist Thomas Nelson Page, whose short stories and novels, including Two Little Confederates and Red Rock, drew on Oakland and Hanover County. Page later served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy and died at Oakland in 1922. The house and farm remain in the Page family.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Nelson family (original 1812 house)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition described as good; the house is a private residence, occupied, and remains in the Page family.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.986734-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/6811/41681195/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002123.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002123/4cda8581e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002123/4cda8581e7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland_entrance_from_Old_Ridge_Road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland_entrance_from_Old_Ridge_Road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681195","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_(Montpelier,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712996"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/hanover-county/oakland-74002123/"}