{"nrhp_refnum":"82004596","name":"Sunnyside","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 673","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newsoms","county":"Southampton County","state":"VA","lat":36.64371043350005,"lon":-77.14286648113334,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sunnyside is a plantation complex on Route 673 near Newsoms in rural Southampton County, Virginia. It has a two-story frame main house built in three stages (ca. 1810-20, 1847 and 1870) and a large group of 19th-century outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of southeastern Virginia's most complete complexes of domestic and farm outbuildings, with an architecturally evolved main house. The 1870 front section, combining Greek Revival and Italianate elements, is described as one of the few Reconstruction-period buildings of architectural pretension in the region. It also reflects planter Harrison Pope, who prospered during the Civil War, and the property has stayed with Pope descendants.","narrative":"Sunnyside is a Southampton County plantation on Route 673 near Newsoms, Virginia, where a two-story frame house and an unusually complete set of outbuildings survive. The house grew in three stages: a one-room core from about 1810-20 built for Joseph Pope, an 1847 enlargement by his son Harrison, and a front block added in 1870. That front section has a pedimented portico with paired fluted Doric columns, Italianate eave brackets and a cast-iron balcony railing. Harrison Pope became one of the county's most ambitious planters and emerged from the Civil War wealthy. The grounds include a schoolhouse, a schoolmaster's house, a dairy, a milk house, a tenant's house, smokehouses, a kitchen-laundry and farm buildings dating from 1870 onward. The nominated 42 acres keep the complex within open farmland. Continuous ownership by Pope descendants has preserved the house, interiors and outbuildings in a well-kept state.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Italianate elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, occupied as a private residence, and surrounded by land that is still farmed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.036968-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6836/41683689/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004596.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004596/2b1917da43-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004596/2b1917da43-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kingrichard4867","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunnyside_plantation_edited.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingrichard4867</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:Sunnyside_plantation_edited.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683689","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyside_(Newsoms,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/southampton-county/sunnyside-82004596/"}