{"nrhp_refnum":"82004561","name":"Weaver House","other_names":["Waller"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 614","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cowie Corner","county":"Greensville County","state":"VA","lat":36.75985618900006,"lon":-77.51310055599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, single-pile, wood-frame farmhouse on a Flemish-bond brick basement, on the east side of Route 614 near Cowie Corner, Greensville County, Virginia. Jarrad Weaver built it between 1838 and 1840.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the earliest surviving houses in Greensville County, where early 19th-century houses are scarce. It has features typical of Southside Virginia houses, including an original hall-parlor plan, painted wood graining, and late Federal-style woodwork. It also documents the plantation Weaver developed on land long held by absentee owners.","narrative":"Near Cowie Corner in Greensville County, Virginia, this two-story wood-frame house sits on its original Flemish-bond brick basement. Jarrad Weaver had it built between 1838 and 1840 on a 600-acre tract known as Waller, which had long belonged to absentee owners from prominent Tidewater families. Weaver bought the land in 1833 and tax records show the house was finished by about 1840. The interior keeps Federal-style mantels, paneled wainscoting and original painted wood graining, and the first floor was probably a hall-parlor plan. Exterior changes include asbestos siding, a twentieth-century kitchen wing and modern shutters. Only one small shed survives of the original outbuildings, and fields still surround the house. The house is significant as one of the earliest in a county where early nineteenth-century houses are scarce. At Weaver's death in 1855 the estate showed a prosperous plantation with modern equipment, crops and more than twenty enslaved people. The property stayed in the Robinson family from 1881.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Builder/architect unknown; built for Jarrad Weaver","architectural_style":"Federal-style woodwork; hall-parlor plan (Southside Virginia vernacular)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence with agricultural surroundings; the interior has had minimal alterations and the exterior is covered with asbestos siding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.839855-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6810/41681029/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004561.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004561/ea908a665e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004561/ea908a665e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weaver_House,_north_of_Emporia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weaver_House,_north_of_Emporia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_House_(Cowie_Corner,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7978356"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/greensville-county/weaver-house-82004561/"}