{"nrhp_refnum":"78003186","name":"Agecroft","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4305 Sulgrave Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.55318837800007,"lon":-77.50624744823727,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Agecroft is a Tudor-Revival manor house with a formal garden on 23 acres between the James River and Sulgrave Road in the Windsor Farms area of Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1926-28 for Thomas C. Williams, Jr., using fragments of an English manor house.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Agecroft as an architectural monument and a product of the social and aesthetic ideals of upper-class Virginians in the 1920s. It is a steel-framed house built with modern construction techniques that incorporates fragments of a post-medieval English manor house and a stairway from Warwick Priory. Its landscaping and formal garden were designed by Charles Gillette.","narrative":"Agecroft is a Tudor-Revival manor house set on 23 acres above the James River in Richmond's Windsor Farms district. Built in 1926-28 for businessman Thomas C. Williams, Jr., it was designed by New York architect Homer G. Morse and built by Allen J. Saville and Company. Williams acquired Agecroft Hall, a Lancashire manor house, had it dismantled, and brought parts of it to Virginia. The new house is not a reconstruction. It has a steel frame, timber-framed exterior walls with rough-cast stucco, leaded casement windows and a stone-shingle roof. It incorporates original timbers, a 25-foot transom window and a carved oak staircase from Warwick Priory. Charles Gillette designed the terraced boxwood garden and the surrounding grounds. The house is significant as an example of 1920s Anglo-American taste, when wealthy Virginians embraced the domestic architecture of Tudor and Stuart England. It was given to the Agecroft Association in 1968 and opened to the public in 1969.","period_of_significance":"1926-28","architect_builder":"Homer G. Morse, Architect; Allen J. Saville & Co., Builder; Charles Gillette, Landscape Architect","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Given to the Agecroft Association in 1968 and opened to the public as a museum in 1969; the form marks it occupied and open to the public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.175698-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/6830/41683027/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/78003186.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003186/dce0369587-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003186/dce0369587-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"phoebe reid","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agecroft_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">phoebe reid</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agecroft_Hall.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"71000982","name":"James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/james-river-and-kanawha-canal-historic-district-71000982/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683027","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agecroft_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145537"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/agecroft-78003186/"}