{"nrhp_refnum":"83003280","name":"Cherry Walk","other_names":["Cherry Row"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Dunbrooke on VA 620","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dunbrooke","county":"Essex County","state":"VA","lat":37.86237351500006,"lon":-76.95135891572829,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cherry Walk is a Tidewater Virginia farm complex south of Dunbrooke in Essex County, begun in the late 18th century. It has a 1½-story gambrel-roof brick dwelling, domestic outbuildings and early farm buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house, outbuildings and farm buildings form an unusually complete, largely unaltered picture of a modest eastern Virginia plantation. The brick house is a characteristic example of late-18th-century Tidewater vernacular architecture. The outbuildings, including two dairies, show rural building techniques across a long span of time. The grounds may also hold archaeological evidence of earlier dwellings and vanished structures.","narrative":"Cherry Walk is a farm complex in Essex County, Virginia, begun in the late 18th century and still set among level fields with few modern intrusions nearby. Its centerpiece is a 1½-story brick house with a steep gambrel roof, Flemish bond walls and end chimneys with tumbled brickwork, a detail rarely seen in Virginia. Built around 1795 for Carter Croxton, whose family had owned the land since 1739, the house is a characteristic example of Tidewater vernacular building. Around it survive two dairies, a smokehouse, a kitchen and a privy that keeps its original wooden seat covers. Farther west stand a large barn that encases an older barn, a plank storage shed and a ruined blacksmith shop. Together the buildings show rural construction methods across many decades and give an unusually complete view of a modest plantation. The Croxton burying ground lies in a nearby field, and archaeology might reveal earlier dwellings on the grounds.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799 (specific dates ca. 1795, ca. 1800; 1810-1830)","architect_builder":"Carter Croxton","architectural_style":"Tidewater Virginia vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings are in various states of repair with no significant alterations; the property was sold in 1982 to new owners planning long-term rehabilitation. Listed as both occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.307249-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/6804/41680443/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003280.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003280/9a8aa14efa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003280/9a8aa14efa-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_Walk_from_the_road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_Walk_from_the_road.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001040","name":"Millers Tavern Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/millers-tavern-rural-historic-district-100001040/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680443","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Walk","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712161"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/essex-county/cherry-walk-83003280/"}