{"nrhp_refnum":"86001136","name":"Arbuckle Place","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Seaside Rd./VA 679","address_restricted":false,"city":"Assawoman","county":"Accomack County","state":"VA","lat":37.874297564000074,"lon":-75.52699578199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A story-and-a-half brick-ended and frame house on Seaside Road (Route 679) in Assawoman, upper Accomack County, Virginia, built in 1774 by Alexander Stockly. It stands on about one acre of nominated land with a smokehouse as a contributing outbuilding.","why_significant":"The house is a rare surviving example of the small brick-end house form once common on Virginia's Eastern Shore, with a hall-and-parlor plan and complex paneling. Its woodwork relates to a school of locally made furniture and to the English pattern book Palladio Londinensis. It is also the only unaltered remnant of the once-thriving port of Assawoman.","narrative":"Arbuckle Place is a small story-and-a-half house on Seaside Road in Assawoman, Accomack County, Virginia. Alexander Stockly built it in 1774 for his son Joseph. The ends are Flemish-bond brick and the front and back are frame, with a steep roof and a hall-and-parlor plan that lacks a central passage. Inside, the chimney end is paneled, with built-in cupboards, a bolection mantel and doors of two to six panels. The woodwork is tied to locally made furniture and to the pattern book Palladio Londinensis. It is one of the best preserved small early houses on the Shore, and most similar houses have been stripped, altered or destroyed. The house also records the history of Assawoman, once the largest town on the upper Shore, with a church, mill, tavern and stores. Militia mustered in the yard during the Revolutionary War. A succession of millers later owned the house, and one probably added the dining room woodwork around 1810. Late nineteenth-century additions were made at the rear.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Alexander Stockly / T. Wharton","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; described as largely unaltered, with a nineteenth-century rear addition and an old smokehouse surviving.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.631427-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/6792/41679213/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86001136.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001136/2a41257456-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001136/2a41257456-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arbuckle_Place_closeup.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arbuckle_Place_closeup.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679213","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbuckle_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14691869"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/accomack-county/arbuckle-place-86001136/"}