{"nrhp_refnum":"76002088","name":"Pitts Neck","other_names":["Pitts Neck Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 mi. W of New Church on VA 709","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Church","county":"Accomack County","state":"VA","lat":37.970693037000046,"lon":-75.62712835299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pitts Neck is a plantation dwelling on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, about 6 miles west of New Church in Accomack County, near the Pocomoke River. It has a small frame and brick wing from about 1700 and a larger two-story brick main block built roughly 25 to 30 years later.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a particularly distinctive example of an early eighteenth-century Virginia plantation house. Its molded brick doorway has a scrolled soffit, one of only two known to survive in Virginia. The brickwork, interior paneling and an earlier wing with a T-shaped chimney add to its value as an architectural document, and later alterations have not greatly weakened its integrity.","narrative":"Pitts Neck is a farmhouse on the flat farmland of Virginia's Eastern Shore, in Accomack County near the Pocomoke River. It is the only early building left on the farm. The house has two main parts: a single-cell, story-and-a-half wing probably built around 1700, and a five-bay, two-story Flemish-bond brick block added some 25 to 30 years later. Its best-known feature is the front doorway, with brick pilasters, a molded brick pediment and a jack arch with a scrolled soffit, one of only two such examples known to survive in Virginia. Inside, raised paneling, corner fireplaces and an early stair relocated in the nineteenth century show how the house changed. The land was granted to Robert Pitt II in 1663 and stayed in the Pitt family for 170 years. The family ran a tobacco warehouse at a nearby river landing. Alterations have not significantly reduced the building's integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian, with Federal elements (as noted on the inventory data sheet)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence and farm; condition is marked excellent and altered. Interior of the early wing is heavily altered, and the north parlor lost its woodwork in 1923.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.576778-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/6792/41679209/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002088.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002088/d41df394b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002088/d41df394b9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pitts_Neck_Farm,_State_Route_709,_New_Church_vicinity,_(Accomack_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pitts_Neck_Farm,_State_Route_709,_New_Church_vicinity,_(Accomack_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679209","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitts_Neck","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14692346"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/accomack-county/pitts-neck-76002088/"}