{"nrhp_refnum":"82004564","name":"Little England Chapel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4100 Kecoughtan Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hampton (Independent City)","county":"Hampton","state":"VA","lat":37.01308423800003,"lon":-76.35266362599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Little England Chapel is a one-story, wood-frame missionary chapel at 4100 Kecoughtan Road in Hampton, Virginia, built ca. 1878-80 by students of Hampton Institute.","why_significant":"The chapel is presented as a landmark to the achievements of Hampton's first generation of freedmen. It was built as a Sunday school in the Cock's Newtown community and is described as the only known black missionary chapel in Virginia. It also reflects the role Hampton Institute played in community institution-building after the Civil War.","narrative":"Little England Chapel is a small, plain, wood-frame building at 4100 Kecoughtan Road in Hampton, Virginia. Students from Hampton Institute erected it between about 1878 and 1880 as a Sunday school for Cock's Newtown, a heavily populated black community on land that Daniel F. Cock had set aside for freedmen. The weatherboarded chapel has a gabled entry porch added in 1910, 6/6 windows, a standing-seam metal roof and a pyramidal-roofed belfry. Institute reports from the 1880s and 1890 describe Sunday school attendance, missionary work and a well-known sewing school. The building was enlarged in 1893. Local residents kept it active after the students stopped teaching in the mid-1930s, and in 1954 it was deeded to the Newtown Improvement Club. It is described as the only known black missionary chapel in Virginia and the only remaining landmark built for and by blacks on the original tract. Religious services continue there.","period_of_significance":"1878-80","architect_builder":"Hampton Institute Students","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and still used for religious services; leased to a church congregation at the time of nomination. Interior in good condition, with altered elements including a 1910 porch and double doors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.69958-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6811/41681129/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004564.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004564/ee0c057382-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004564/ee0c057382-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LITTLE_ENGLAND_CHAPEL_-_HAMPTON,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LITTLE_ENGLAND_CHAPEL_-_HAMPTON,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681129","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_England_Chapel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6649921"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/hampton/little-england-chapel-82004564/"}