{"nrhp_refnum":"82001807","name":"Lewis Farm","other_names":["The Farm","Davis,John A.G.,Farm","VDHR No.104-002"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1201 Jefferson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.02895201200005,"lon":-78.46874720899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick house known as The Farm, or the John A. G. Davis House, at 1201 East Jefferson Street in Charlottesville, Virginia, built in 1826 for lawyer and University of Virginia law professor John A. G. Davis.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent example of Jeffersonian classicism, built by workmen associated with Thomas Jefferson. It has Flemish bond brick on all four facades, a Tuscan portico, and Palladian proportions. It was also part of the early Lewis plantation and served as Union General Custer's temporary headquarters in March 1865.","narrative":"Built in 1826 on a hillside east of downtown Charlottesville, this two-story brick house was erected for John A. G. Davis, a lawyer who later taught law at the University of Virginia. It sits on part of The Farm, an early plantation associated with the Lewis family. The house follows Jeffersonian classical design: a symmetrical center-passage plan, brick laid in Flemish bond on all four sides, a slate hip roof, and a Tuscan entrance portico with an elliptical fanlight doorway. Its proportions also reflect Palladian principles. A rear addition was made about 1850 under Thomas Farish. In March 1865, General George Armstrong Custer made temporary headquarters here during Sheridan's advance on Charlottesville. Later owners included George R. B. Michie, and the house served as a nursing home and apartments before being restored as a private residence in the 1990s. The nomination values it chiefly as a well-preserved example of Jeffersonian architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William B. Phillips and Malcolm F. Crawford (builders)","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Early Classical Revival (Jeffersonian classicism)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored as a private single-family residence after 1993; earlier used as a nursing home and apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.48236-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/6786/41678639/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82001807.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001807/95c3ef8770-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001807/95c3ef8770-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nickmorgan2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Farm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nickmorgan2</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:Lewis_Farm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678639","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15242292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/lewis-farm-82001807/"}