{"nrhp_refnum":"75002118","name":"Land, Francis, House (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["Rose Hall","Dhr Id 134-0031"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3133 Virginia Beach Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.84126035600005,"lon":-76.07959725579721,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-bay, one-and-one-half-story gambrel-roofed brick house at 3133 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia, known as the Francis Land House or Rose Hall. It was probably built by Francis Thoroughgood Land in the mid-eighteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a good example of a substantial rural mid-eighteenth-century dwelling and one of a small, rapidly diminishing group of colonial buildings in the city. It is also tied to the Land family, early settlers of the Lynnhaven River section of Princess Anne County. The gambrel roof was a form much favored in the area's eighteenth-century farmhouses.","narrative":"Rose Hall, also called the Francis Land House, is a gambrel-roofed brick dwelling on an open tract south of Virginia Beach Boulevard, one of the few such tracts left along a heavily commercial stretch. It is five bays wide and one and a half stories tall, set on a high basement, with Flemish bond brick walls, gauged jack arches and corbeled end chimneys. Inside are a central passage, a double-pile plan and a Neo-classical parlor mantel. A later restoration added the modillion cornice, door hood and stoop balustrade, and rear additions came after 1900. The house is considered a good example of a substantial mid-eighteenth-century rural dwelling and one of few surviving colonial buildings in the city. It was probably built by Francis Thoroughgood Land, a vestryman, County Court member and large landowner whose family were early settlers along the Lynnhaven River. Later used as a dress shop, it was sold to a developer in 1975.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Probably built by Francis Thoroughgood Land","architectural_style":"Vernacular with Georgian (Revival) elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most recently used as a dress shop; purchased by a developer in February 1975 and its fate was uncertain. A data sheet lists current function as not in use. Minor arson damage occurred in March 1975.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.932054-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/6839/41683997/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/75002118.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002118/b646222bf2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002118/b646222bf2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rlevse","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrancisLandHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rlevse</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:FrancisLandHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683997","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Land_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5481674"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/land-francis-house-additional-documentation-75002118/"}