{"nrhp_refnum":"75002116","name":"Wallace, Thomas, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW corner of Brown and S. Market Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburg (Independent City)","county":"Petersburg","state":"VA","lat":37.22405401200007,"lon":-77.40582542499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate house at the southwest corner of Brown and South Market Streets in Petersburg, Virginia, built around 1855 for Thomas Wallace, a merchant and lawyer.","why_significant":"The house is tied to Civil War history: on April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant met in its library, and the house served as Grant's headquarters in Petersburg. It is also an impressive example of Italianate architecture on a street once noted for fine houses, and it is one of the few remaining residences on the west side of South Market Street.","narrative":"Built around 1855 for Thomas Wallace, a prosperous merchant and lawyer, this two-story pressed-brick house stands at the corner of Brown and South Market Streets in Petersburg, Virginia. Its Italianate design includes a bracketed cornice, a low hipped roof, cast iron window hoods and a wrought iron balcony. A Greek Revival entrance porch was later joined by a Georgian Revival porch ending in a round pavilion, added after 1903. Inside, double parlors have matching carved marble mantels, and the front library holds a later Eastlake overmantel. The house earned its place in Civil War history on April 3, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant met in the library to discuss the coming end of the conflict and surrender terms. Grant also used the house as his Petersburg headquarters. It was once on the city's most fashionable street, and today it is one of only two surviving residences on the west side of South Market Street.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate with Georgian Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition but altered; the form notes it was threatened with demolition in 1975. A later data sheet lists it as not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.575077-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/6825/41682508/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/75002116.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002116/31f9131993-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002116/31f9131993-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WallaceHousePetersburg.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WallaceHousePetersburg.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"92000345","name":"South Market Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/south-market-street-historic-district-92000345/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682508","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wallace_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902874"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/petersburg/wallace-thomas-house-75002116/"}