{"nrhp_refnum":"87000015","name":"Wheatland","other_names":["DHL File No. 66-13"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 624","address_restricted":false,"city":"Callao","county":"Northumberland County","state":"VA","lat":37.99993684700004,"lon":-76.51243725000911,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style frame plantation house with symmetrical kitchen, office and yard dependencies, built ca. 1848-50 near Callao on Cherry Point Neck in Northumberland County, Virginia. The builder is unknown, and the house now sits on a sixteen-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the more sophisticated of its period on the Northern Neck. It cites the refined Federal and Greek Revival detailing, the two-tier Doric porticos and an unusual T-plan passage that gives independent access to every main-floor room. It also stresses the intact group of four symmetrically placed original dependencies and the geometric landscaped setting, which together show conservative and progressive design ideas mixing in late antebellum Virginia.","narrative":"Wheatland is a 94-foot weatherboard frame house on Cherry Point Neck in Northumberland County, Virginia, built around 1848-50 for Dr. John H. Harding, a young physician, planter and delegate to the General Assembly. It was once the centerpiece of a 1300-acre plantation and now occupies sixteen acres. A two-and-a-half-story main block is flanked by matching one-and-a-half-story wings, and two-tier Doric porticos face both the land and river sides. The interior has a T-shaped passage that reaches every main-floor room independently, which suggests the original owner valued privacy. Federal and Greek Revival details include plaster ceiling medallions and a curving main stair. A kitchen, an office and two small yard buildings stand in symmetrical positions around the house, linked by brick walkways and a tree-lined lane. The house has changed little, and the intact dependencies and planned landscape give it standing as an example of late antebellum Northern Neck architecture.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1848-50","architect_builder":"Unknown builder; built for Dr. John H. Harding","architectural_style":"Federal, with Greek Revival detailing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; described as in excellent condition and largely unaltered, with one small rear kitchen addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.792344-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/6823/41682302/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/87000015.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000015/bcd5ce38d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000015/bcd5ce38d1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wheatland_near_Callao,_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wheatland_near_Callao,_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682302","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatland_(Callao,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903180"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/northumberland-county/wheatland-87000015/"}