{"nrhp_refnum":"83003311","name":"Woodford","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 610","address_restricted":false,"city":"Simons Corner","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.833478813000056,"lon":-76.67145459992147,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half Flemish-bond brick dwelling on a 53-acre peninsula along Farnham Creek near Simons Corner, Richmond County, Virginia, built between 1756 and 1773 for Billington McCarty, Jr.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an important example of Virginia's transitional vernacular architecture, blending a hall-parlor plan with a Georgian-style center passage. It has a stair banister described as unique in Virginia, following English precedents, and remnants of primitive interior clapboarding. The property may also hold archaeological remains of one or two earlier dwellings.","narrative":"Woodford is a story-and-a-half brick house on a scenic peninsula formed by Farnham Creek, near its meeting with the Rappahannock River in Richmond County, Virginia. Built between 1756 and 1773 for Billington McCarty, Jr., it sits on land his family had held since 1661. The walls are Flemish-bond brick with no decorative detailing, and the roof is a clipped gable. Inside, a hall-parlor arrangement is joined to a center passage borrowed from Georgian plans, while the uneven window spacing follows the uneven room sizes. The open-well stair has balusters matching those at Chevening in Kent, England, and no other Virginia house is known to have them. Clapboard remnants under the rafters show how plainly the upper rooms were first finished. A 1935 restoration added a kitchen wing and renewed much exterior woodwork. The 53-acre tract may also hold the remains of one or two earlier dwellings.","period_of_significance":"3rd quarter 18th century","architect_builder":"Philip Stern (restoration architect, 1935)","architectural_style":"Virginia vernacular, transitional between hall-parlor and Georgian center-passage plan","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence in excellent condition; restored in 1935 with a frame kitchen wing added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.983528-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6828/41682845/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003311.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003311/abfbc34bb5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003311/abfbc34bb5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodford_estate_entrance,_near_Simons_Corner.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodford_estate_entrance,_near_Simons_Corner.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005837","name":"Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/occupacia-rappahannock-rural-historic-district-100005837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682845","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodford_(Simons_Corner,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903632"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/woodford-83003311/"}