{"nrhp_refnum":"78003026","name":"Fox Hill Plantation","other_names":["Farmville"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Lively off VA 201","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lively","county":"Lancaster County","state":"VA","lat":37.754297324500044,"lon":-76.54282345824294,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped brick plantation house with surviving brick outbuildings, set on a flat tract of farmland near Lively on Virginia's Northern Neck in Lancaster County. It was built in the first quarter of the 19th century.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house's outstanding Flemish-bond brickwork, handsome interiors, well-maintained and little-altered condition, and striking outbuildings. Together the buildings represent the unacademic but architecturally sophisticated plantation groups of prosperous Virginians in the national period. The site may also hold archaeological interest as the possible location of the 17th-century house of planter David Fox.","narrative":"Fox Hill Plantation is an open, level tract of farmland on Virginia's Northern Neck, Lancaster County, where an L-shaped, two-story brick house was built in the early 19th century. Although local tradition holds that it went up in three stages, continuous Flemish-bond brickwork shows it was built all at once. Features include a five-bay facade, jack arches, a molded brick cornice unusual in eastern Virginia, and a room-passage-room-passage-room plan. Interiors are restrained but well crafted, with recessed-panel wainscoting, reeded mantels and round-arched niches. A brick kitchen and a pyramidal-roofed smokehouse survive, and a dairy once stood nearby. The land takes its name from David Fox, a wealthy 17th-century planter who served on the first Lancaster County Court in 1652. Later known as Farmville, it passed to John Chinn, then to Richard Selden II, who likely built the present house near the end of his life. The 14-acre boundary takes in probable sites of vanished buildings.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and occupied; the house is described as well maintained and little altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.65185-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/6814/41681470/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/78003026.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003026/5c1085cd9e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003026/5c1085cd9e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FOX_HILL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:FOX_HILL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681470","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Hill_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712338"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lancaster-county/fox-hill-plantation-78003026/"}