{"nrhp_refnum":"83003264","name":"Edge Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Woodford on VA 632","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodford","county":"Caroline County","state":"VA","lat":38.11673836950004,"lon":-77.45953017612683,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Literature","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural plantation property on a bluff above the Matta River in western Caroline County, Virginia, about ten miles south of Fredericksburg. It has a two-part brick Federal house (1820-21 and about 1840) and a board-and-batten academy building of 1857.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a fine example of rural Federal architecture in the region, with unusual, individualized woodwork and Adam-style motifs, and it is very well preserved. The 1857 Edge Hill Academy, founded by Samuel Schooler, is described as a rare surviving example of antebellum rural private school architecture. The property also holds archaeological sites tied to the academy cabins and possibly to 18th-century occupation.","narrative":"Edge Hill is a plantation property set on a steep bluff above the bottomlands of the Matta River in western Caroline County, Virginia. Its brick house was built in two stages: the eastern section in 1820-21 for Rice Schooler, and a matching western addition around 1840 that created a symmetrical five-bay front. Inside, the oldest section has unusually individual Federal woodwork, including a drawing room mantel with provincial Adam-style ornament that the nomination says has no close match in the region. West of the house stands the Edge Hill Academy, built in 1857 by Samuel Schooler, a scholar, author and Confederate artillery officer, for a private boys' school. The school closed in the late 1860s, and the building survives as a barn with many original interior fittings. The grounds may also hold archaeological remains of student cabins and of earlier occupation dating to the 1700s. The house and setting are described as remarkably well preserved.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal (house, with Adam-style woodwork); Greek Revival feeling in the academy building","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; house in excellent condition and largely unaltered; the academy building is used as a storage barn and is being maintained against deterioration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.497729-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6799/41679945/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003264.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003264/37081eb6c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003264/37081eb6c6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edge_Hill_stone_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edge_Hill_stone_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Hill_(Woodford,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337663"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/caroline-county/edge-hill-83003264/"}