{"nrhp_refnum":"84000676","name":"Walkerton","other_names":["VHLC File No. 43-19"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mountain Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glen Allen","county":"Henrico County","state":"VA","lat":37.66497548600006,"lon":-77.49367757299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Walkerton is a 2½-story brick antebellum tavern and dwelling on Mountain Road near Glen Allen in northern Henrico County, Virginia, built in 1825 with four early outbuildings and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Walkerton as one of the largest and best-preserved antebellum taverns in central Virginia and the only brick tavern among those recorded in Henrico County. Its unusual features include two separate stairways, an enclosed service porch and a swinging partition that turned an upstairs room into a dance hall. It illustrates the social and economic role of taverns along the Mountain Road in 19th-century Virginia.","narrative":"Built in 1825 beside Mountain Road in northern Henrico County, Walkerton is a large brick tavern that later served for over a century as a private home. Travelers once used the road as a major route between Richmond and the western Piedmont, and stagecoaches stopped here before the Civil War. The house rises two and a half stories above a raised basement and keeps its original symmetrical plan, woodwork, plaster and sash windows. Two stairways, one for guests and one for family and servants, point to its use as an inn. A hinged wooden partition upstairs could be swung open to create a dance room, a feature not recorded in other Virginia houses. Early porches survive on three sides, along with a servants' quarters, wellhouse, smokehouse and carriage house. Of the many taverns once operating in Henrico County, only three remain, and Walkerton is the largest and the only one built of brick, which is why it was recognized as significant at the state level.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the main house is in good condition except for the northwest corner of the rear brick wall, which needs rebuilding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.319525-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/6812/41681250/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/84000676.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000676/669e0b16a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000676/669e0b16a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Musgrove","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walkerton.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">John Musgrove</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:Walkerton.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010833","name":"Warminster Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/warminster-rural-historic-district-100010833/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681250","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_(Glen_Allen,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7962383"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/henrico-county/walkerton-84000676/"}