{"nrhp_refnum":"79003034","name":"Santee","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off VA 610","address_restricted":false,"city":"Corbin","county":"Caroline County","state":"VA","lat":38.21535988550005,"lon":-77.36199485821571,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Santee is an early-nineteenth-century brick plantation house with its original kitchen, stable and a surviving slave house, set in a landscaped park near Corbin in Caroline County, Virginia. The main block was built around 1820 by Battaile Fitzhugh.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Santee an outstanding example of a formal plantation of early-nineteenth-century Tidewater Virginia. The house, early outbuildings, slave house and park give a glimpse of antebellum life along the Rappahannock River at its most prosperous. The property was associated with the Fitzhugh and Gordon families for over 250 years.","narrative":"Santee is a plantation house near Corbin in Caroline County, Virginia, reached by a road winding through woods into an antebellum park. The two-story, five-bay brick house, laid in Flemish bond under a low hipped roof, was finished by 1820 for Battaile Fitzhugh, with a frame ell that probably predates it. Inside, a curved stair and finely molded parlor mantels with fluted Doric colonettes and sunburst paterae stand out. Behind the house are the original brick kitchen and an early stable, and several hundred yards east survives one of eight original slave houses. The land was patented by John Battaile I and passed through the Fitzhugh and later Gordon families. Troops of Gen. Stonewall Jackson camped in the woods in the winter of 1862-1863. The house stood vacant from 1931 to 1943 and was restored after 1945. It was listed as an outstanding example of a formal Tidewater plantation, with 56 acres including the park and approach.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence and used for agriculture; described as remarkably well preserved and restored by the owners who bought it in 1945. It was vacant from 1931 until 1943.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.501457-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/6799/41679967/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003034.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003034/73772bf772-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003034/73772bf772-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santee_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santee_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679967","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santee_(Corbin,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713177"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/caroline-county/santee-79003034/"}