{"nrhp_refnum":"76002121","name":"Andrews Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2.6 mi. NE of Glenora on VA 601","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glenora","county":"Spotsylvania County","state":"VA","lat":38.12167346950005,"lon":-77.76999416881864,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural tavern and house complex near Glenora in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, consisting of an early nineteenth-century brick dwelling with a frame tavern wing added shortly before 1848, along with several outbuildings on a 95-acre tract.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well-preserved example of the buildings central to nineteenth-century rural community life, serving over time as an ordinary, school, post office, polling place and residence. It is also described as a model of Federal-period provincial architecture in Piedmont Virginia, notable for its masonry details, woodwork and hall-parlor plan.","narrative":"Andrews Tavern is a brick house with an attached frame tavern wing along a country road northeast of Glenora, in rural Spotsylvania County. The two-story, four-bay brick portion dates from the early nineteenth century and is laid in Flemish bond on the front. It keeps a hall-parlor plan, which the nomination calls an unusually late use of that arrangement, along with paneled wainscoting and carved mantels. The three-bay frame wing was built shortly before 1848 for tavern use and has plain Greek Revival trim and a two-story gallery. Over time the property served as a tavern, school, polling place, post office and residence. A post office operated here from 1842 until 1917, with interruptions. The Andrews family, especially Samuel Andrews, built up landholdings and commercial interests around it. A nineteenth-century board-and-batten store building and other farm buildings survive on the 95 acres. The complex was listed for its role in community life and its Federal-period provincial architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal with Greek Revival elements in the added wing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, and in use as a private residence; the form's earlier uses were house, tavern, school, polling place and post office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.195708-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6837/41683735/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002121.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002121/851c75ffac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002121/851c75ffac-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wikipelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew%27s_Tavern_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipelli</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:Andrew%27s_Tavern_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683735","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews_Tavern_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4759109"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/spotsylvania-county/andrews-tavern-76002121/"}