{"nrhp_refnum":"79003096","name":"Roxbury","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1.7 mi. S of Oak Grove","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Grove","county":"Westmoreland County","state":"VA","lat":38.15836835600007,"lon":-77.00094670595507,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Roxbury is a two-story, T-shaped frame house completed in 1861 on a ridge near the Rappahannock River, about 1.7 miles south of Oak Grove in Westmoreland County, Virginia. A mid-nineteenth-century log outbuilding also survives on the property.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Roxbury as a notable mid-Victorian house in the picturesque mode, following the type popularized by Calvert Vaux. Houses of this kind are fairly common in the northern states but extremely rare in the South, especially Virginia, where fine house building nearly stopped with the Civil War. It is therefore treated as an important architectural document of its time and place.","narrative":"Roxbury is a two-story frame house finished in 1861 on a ridge near the Rappahannock River in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Its T-shaped plan, asymmetrical layout and steeply pitched, many-gabled roof with deep eaves and sawnwork ornaments reflect the picturesque style promoted by Calvert Vaux in his 1857 book Villas and Cottages. Inside, the decoration is restrained, limited mainly to marble mantels, molded plaster cornices and a pair of Gothic-style bookcases in the library. A mid-nineteenth-century double-pen log outbuilding also survives. The house was built for Dabney Carr Wirt, son of the jurist William Wirt, and paid for by Juliet Washington, his mother-in-law. No architect is tied to the design; a local builder using a pattern book may have produced it. Houses of this type are rare in Virginia, where major building largely halted during the Civil War and Reconstruction, which is why Roxbury was recognized for its architecture. The nominated area covers about ten acres, including the house, its yard and the graded field to the east.","period_of_significance":"1861","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-Victorian picturesque (in the manner of Calvert Vaux)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained as a residence; the form says it is occupied and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.141115-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6841/41684106/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003096.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003096/3887d9d3f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003096/3887d9d3f9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roxbury_near_Oak_Grove.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roxbury_near_Oak_Grove.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684106","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxbury_(Oak_Grove,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15273453"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/westmoreland-county/roxbury-79003096/"}