{"nrhp_refnum":"74002248","name":"Weblin House (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["Dhr Id# 134-0035"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5588 Moore's Pond Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.87256082250005,"lon":-76.1665007128656,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half brick farmhouse with a gambrel roof at 5588 Moore's Pond Road in Virginia Beach (formerly Princess Anne County), Virginia, dated by the nomination to around 1700.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an important example of the pre-Georgian vernacular \"Virginia style\" farmhouse, with a hall-and-parlor plan and end chimneys. It is also described as the only house of its type in the vicinity to keep its rural farm setting. Stylistic features point to a date of about 1700, when John Weblin, Jr. owned the land.","narrative":"Weblin House is a three-bay, story-and-a-half brick farmhouse at the end of a long lane in Virginia Beach, surrounded by flat cultivated fields. Stylistic details such as gauged brick flat arches and the formal arrangement of the openings suggest a date near 1700, when John Weblin, Jr. owned the land. The brickwork combines Flemish and English bond with glazed headers, and a large exterior chimney at the south end was rebuilt in the 1930s using its original material. The gambrel roof replaced an earlier gable roof, probably in the early nineteenth century, and a modern brick wing was added to the south. Inside are a Federal-style mantel, a late-eighteenth-century mantel, and a rare bolection-molded mantel upstairs. The house belongs to a small group of early farmhouses in old Princess Anne County that follow the hall-and-parlor \"Virginia style.\" It is also valued for keeping a rural setting that has changed little in about 250 years.","period_of_significance":"17th and 18th centuries (boxes checked); no specific dates given","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pre-Georgian vernacular farmhouse (\"Virginia style\", hall-and-parlor plan)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, altered, on its original site, and occupied as a private residence. It has a modern one-story brick wing at the south end.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.77587-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/6839/41683993/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002248.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002248/1b39e2dc3f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002248/1b39e2dc3f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"SueCorcoran","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weblin_house_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:Weblin_house_va_beach_9_2012.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683993","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblin_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903035"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/weblin-house-additional-documentation-74002248/"}