{"nrhp_refnum":"87001550","name":"Hexagon House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"530 Amherst St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester (Independent City)","county":"Winchester","state":"VA","lat":39.187632069000074,"lon":-78.17519883699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, hexagonal brick house at 530 Amherst Street in Winchester, Virginia, built between 1871 and 1873 by B. Leathers for James W. Burgess.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only 19th-century hexagonal house standing in Virginia. Its plan and ventilators reflect the influence of Orson S. Fowler's handbook on polygonal houses. Its vertical casement windows with geometric stained-glass panes are also unusual for Virginia.","narrative":"This two-story hexagonal brick house at 530 Amherst Street in Winchester was built between 1871 and 1873 by B. Leathers for James W. Burgess, a local furniture dealer. Five-course American-bond brick sits on a stone foundation under a low-pitch roof with a widow's walk, scroll brackets and a central corbeled chimney that serves corner fireplaces. Inside, rooms connect directly, with no lateral halls or center passage. The house is considered the only 19th-century hexagonal residence in Virginia. Its design draws partly on Orson S. Fowler's handbook promoting polygonal houses, and it retains ventilators in the principal rooms as Fowler recommended. Vertical casement windows, rare in Virginia, hold stained-glass panes in geometric patterns, an early domestic use of such glass in the state. Burgess advertised the house for sale in 1873 without mentioning its shape, and he later lost it to foreclosure. The nominated area is about one acre, including the house and its tree-planted yards.","period_of_significance":"1871-1873","architect_builder":"B. Leathers","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in an excellent state of preservation; at the time of the form it served as headquarters of Preservation of Historic Winchester, Inc., and restoration and landscaping were under way.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.735447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/6841/41684142/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/87001550.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001550/f062737453-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001550/f062737453-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Joel Bradshaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterVA-HexagonHouse-sideview.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Joel Bradshaw</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterVA-HexagonHouse-sideview.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"15000963","name":"Winchester Historic District (Boundary Increase III)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/winchester-historic-district-boundary-increase-iii-15000963/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684142","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892283"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/winchester/hexagon-house-87001550/"}