{"nrhp_refnum":"83003278","name":"White Post Historic District","other_names":["See also:Meadea"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"VA 658 and 628","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Post","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.05713866600004,"lon":-78.10444864076129,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small crossroads village historic district of about 25 acres in southwestern Clarke County, Virginia, at the intersection of routes 658 and 628. It has twenty-eight buildings, mostly late 19th- and early 20th-century, centered on a white octagonal wood post.","why_significant":"The village grew up around the white post that Thomas, Sixth Lord Fairfax, had erected in the 1760s to point the way to Greenway Court. It is associated with Bishop William Meade, who was born there and led the revival of the Episcopal Church in Virginia. The district is a visually cohesive group of buildings typical of late 19th-century building in Valley towns, including the ornate Gothic Revival Bishop Meade Memorial Church of 1875.","narrative":"White Post is a small crossroads village in southwestern Clarke County, Virginia, where two roads meet at a white-painted octagonal wood post eleven feet tall. The post gave the town its name and has been replaced several times. The district has twenty-eight buildings, including late 19th-century frame and stucco houses, two churches, a parish hall, a 1913 post office and three abandoned commercial structures. Five modern houses do not contribute to its character. The most prominent building is Bishop Meade Memorial Church, a large brick Gothic Revival church dedicated in 1875, with corbelled cornices and pinnacled pilasters. The village grew around a marker Lord Fairfax set up in the 1760s to direct travelers to Greenway Court. It is also known as the birthplace of Bishop William Meade, a leader of the Episcopal Church's revival in Virginia. A log house of about 1784 is the only surviving 18th-century building. Together the buildings preserve the rural character and small scale of a Valley crossroads town.","period_of_significance":"Late 18th century; 19th and 20th centuries","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic Revival church, Queen Anne houses, and late 19th-century vernacular frame and stucco residences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Twenty-eight buildings, five of them noncontributing. Three commercial buildings and the post office are abandoned or closed. The form marks the district as both occupied and unoccupied, in excellent to fair condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.861705-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/6802/41680230/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003278.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003278/93ad578806-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003278/93ad578806-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"AgnosticPreachersKid","credit_html":"AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Post,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93001133","name":"Greenway Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/greenway-historic-district-93001133/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Post_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713525"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/white-post-historic-district-83003278/"}