{"nrhp_refnum":"74002238","name":"Boush-Tazewell House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6225 Powhaten Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk (Independent City)","county":"Norfolk","state":"VA","lat":36.89796649400006,"lon":-76.31336615999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story Late-Georgian frame town mansion at 6225 Powhatan Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, built in 1783-84 for John Boush and moved about three miles to its present site around 1902.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding and rare example of a formal Late-Georgian town mansion. It is tied to several prominent Virginians, including John Boush and Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell. It was the first important private residence built in Norfolk after the city's devastation during the Revolution, and its two-level portico is noted as an early use of that form.","narrative":"This two-story frame mansion at 6225 Powhatan Avenue in Norfolk was built in 1783-84 for John Boush, a civic leader whose grandfather was the borough's first mayor. It was the first important private residence raised in the city after the Revolution devastated it. The house is five bays wide, with a slate deck-on-hip roof and a two-level pedimented portico on the river front supported by slender Tuscan columns. Inside are a center hall plan, elliptical arches and original folding doors. In 1810 Littleton Waller Tazewell acquired it; he later served as a U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia, and notable visitors included Lafayette and Andrew Jackson. When the old neighborhood became commercialized, the house was carefully dismantled and re-erected about 1902 on a similar waterside site near the Lafayette River, with most original materials saved. It is listed as a rare, little-altered Late-Georgian town mansion.","period_of_significance":"1783-84","architect_builder":"Contractor named Emory carried out the 1902 move; original architect not stated","architectural_style":"Late-Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, structurally sound, little altered, and undergoing a major renovation at the time of nomination; used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.168262-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/6821/41682173/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002238.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002238/1beada7bfe-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002238/1beada7bfe-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:BOUSH-TAZEWELL_HOUSE,_NORFOLK,_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:BOUSH-TAZEWELL_HOUSE,_NORFOLK,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682173","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boush%E2%80%93Tazewell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16845305"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/norfolk/boush-tazewell-house-74002238/"}