{"nrhp_refnum":"79003046","name":"Jordan, Joseph, House","other_names":["Boykin's Quarter","Jordan's","Hatty Barlow Moody Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Raynor on VA 683","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raynor","county":"Isle of Wight County","state":"VA","lat":36.97134821550006,"lon":-76.76200077824367,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half frame farmhouse with brick ends on a 150-acre farm northeast of Raynor in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, built around 1795 and later enlarged, along with a group of 19th-century frame outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well-preserved late 18th-century moderate-sized plantation house and one of the largest of a group of related small houses in the Blackwater River area where Surry, Southampton and Isle of Wight counties meet. The later additions, the outbuildings and the 150-acre tract together illustrate a typical 19th-century farmstead of the region. The acreage matches the average size of small planters' holdings.","narrative":"Set in swampy country near the Blackwater River, this farmhouse in Isle of Wight County dates to about 1795 and sits on a 150-acre tract. The original section is a story-and-a-half frame building with Flemish bond brick ends, semi-exterior chimneys and a rare clapboard roof, one of only nine known surviving in Virginia. Inside, a hall-parlor plan, a delicate raised-panel mantel and a corner stair mark the main rooms. Clerestory windows were added around 1820 to 1840, and a two-story wing and kitchen ell followed in the early 1900s. Joseph Jordan's 1795 will refers to completing his dwelling house, which the form links to this building. The house belongs to a close-knit group of small dwellings that reflect the rising prosperity of local planters after the Revolution. A row of 19th-century outbuildings, including a smokehouse, plank crib and tenant house or office, lines the drive and completes the farmstead.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1795","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular late 18th-century hall-parlor plan house with brick ends and frame construction","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition on its original site; the form checks both occupied and unoccupied status. The board-and-batten kitchen is described as dilapidated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.155843-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/6813/41681320/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003046.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003046/c3ae7c7006-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003046/c3ae7c7006-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Jordan_House_and_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Jordan_House_and_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681320","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jordan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712643"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/isle-of-wight-county/jordan-joseph-house-79003046/"}