{"nrhp_refnum":"78003183","name":"Woodburn","other_names":["Woodbourne"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Charles on VA 618","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charles City","county":"Charles City County","state":"VA","lat":37.35536443850006,"lon":-77.11002645041643,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodburn is a three-part frame plantation house built about 1815 by John Tyler, northwest of Charles City Court House on the west side of State Route 618 in Charles City County, Virginia. The nominated tract is about 60 acres and includes surviving early outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house was built by John Tyler, later the tenth President of the United States, who lived there while serving as Congressman from the district. Architecturally it is a provincial version of the tripartite Palladian dwelling popular in the South in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its austerely handsome interior woodwork is a notable feature.","narrative":"Woodburn is a frame plantation house in Charles City County, Virginia, built around 1815 by John Tyler, who later became the tenth President of the United States. It sits on an open tract of about 60 acres, partly bounded by surrounding woodland. The house has a tall two-story central block with a gable-end facade and flanking chimneys, plus two low one-story wings. Inside, a front passage with a corner stair leads to rooms with deep molded cornices, wainscoting and carefully detailed mantels. A one-story office, possibly from about 1830, and an original smokehouse survive; a dairy collapsed recently but its parts remain. Tyler described the house as a \"decent and comfortable dwelling,\" and he lived there while serving as Congressman. The house is valued as a provincial example of the tripartite Palladian form popular in the South, and for its austere interior woodwork. Tyler owned it until 1831, and members of the Christian family held it from 1846 to 1913.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1815","architect_builder":"John Tyler","architectural_style":"Provincial version of the tripartite \"Palladian\" dwelling","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form checks the property as unoccupied and work in progress; a 1978 telephone note says the building was still vacant, and the owner was committed to preserving it. The dairy had recently collapsed.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.656361-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/6800/41680018/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/78003183.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003183/ae86a6d44b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003183/ae86a6d44b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WOODBURN,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WOODBURN,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680018","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodburn_(Charles_City,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713555"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charles-city-county/woodburn-78003183/"}