{"nrhp_refnum":"79003094","name":"Ingleside","other_names":["Washington Academy"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Oak Grove on VA 638","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Grove","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"VA","lat":38.14942211200005,"lon":-77.00451527792055,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ingleside, also called Washington Academy, is a two-story Flemish-bond brick temple-form building on a high basement in Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was erected in 1834 as the principal building of the Washington Academy.","why_significant":"The building is presented as an interesting example of institutional architecture from the antebellum period and is associated with the Washington Academy, one of several early nineteenth-century preparatory schools in Virginia. Its classical temple form does not follow a specific contemporary movement, though tradition says it was patterned on Jefferson's Virginia capitol in Richmond.","narrative":"Ingleside in Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, is a two-story Flemish-bond brick building set on a high basement. It was built in 1834 as the main building of the Washington Academy, a preparatory school. The temple-form house is entered through a five-bay gable end sheltered by a hexastyle pedimented portico, with columns that have conical bases and capitals made of four corbelled brick bands. Tradition holds that the school's founders patterned it on Jefferson's Virginia capitol in Richmond, though the detailing is described as naive. A 1833 newspaper notice specified the building's dimensions and six-column portico, and the present building matches them. The academy opened in 1835, taught classics, mathematics, English and French, and closed after about ten years because of falling enrollment. The property was sold in 1847 and the main building became a private residence named Ingleside. It is regarded as an example of institutional architecture of its period. The nominated acreage covers the house, its yard and the axial entrance drive.","period_of_significance":"1834","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Temple-form building with vaguely Classical character, using no specific Greek or Roman order","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and used as a private residence; condition marked excellent but altered, with one-story wings and other changes added in recent years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.959924-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/6841/41684112/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003094.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003094/3d6dfc6fc5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003094/3d6dfc6fc5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingleside_plantation-and-vineyard_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingleside_plantation-and-vineyard_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684112","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingleside_Vineyards","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15228678"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/westmoreland-county/ingleside-79003094/"}