{"nrhp_refnum":"80004196","name":"Horn Quarter","other_names":["Hornquarter"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of Manquin on VA 614","address_restricted":false,"city":"Manquin","county":"King William County","state":"VA","lat":37.774674937500066,"lon":-77.31376618377409,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, Federal-style brick plantation house with surviving outbuildings, garden remnants and a small cemetery, on a rise off Route 614 northwest of Manquin in King William County, Virginia. It was built in 1829-30 for George Taylor.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Horn Quarter is one of the most impressive and ornamental Federal-style residences in Virginia. It belongs to a group of sophisticated Federal houses that apparently share an unidentified builder. It has an Adamesque interior with a spiral stair and ornamental plasterwork, and it is noted as one of the earliest Virginia houses with documented indoor plumbing. It also may hold archaeological potential.","narrative":"Horn Quarter is a brick Federal-style house built in 1829-30 for George Taylor, son of the agrarian reformer John Taylor of Caroline County. It sits on a rise at the end of a farm lane off Route 614 in King William County. The two-story, double-pile house is laid in fine Flemish bond and has a Roman Doric pedimented portico and gauged brick elliptical arches over its entrances. Inside, Adamesque plasterwork and woodwork, drawn from pattern-book plates, surround a spiral stair rising from the basement to the attic. The house is also noted for early indoor plumbing, documented in a lawsuit of 1859. Its related buildings include an orangery, a schoolhouse or office, a dairy, rear dependencies and an overseer's house, along with a cemetery and garden remnants. Similar houses elsewhere in Virginia suggest a shared, unidentified builder. The name Horn Quarter dates to at least 1722, and the site may hold traces of an earlier 18th-century dwelling.","period_of_significance":"1830","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal (Adamesque interior)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and unaltered on its original site. The overseer's house suffered a recent fire that destroyed its original interior, and the formal garden is no longer maintained.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.046861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/6814/41681438/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/80004196.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004196/19c360f323-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004196/19c360f323-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HORN_QUARTER.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HORN_QUARTER.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681438","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_Quarter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5903966"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-william-county/horn-quarter-80004196/"}