{"nrhp_refnum":"89000203","name":"Slaughter-Hill House","other_names":["Corrie Hill House","Roger Dixon House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"306 N. West St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Culpeper","county":"Culpeper County","state":"VA","lat":38.47502103800008,"lon":-77.99756174399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-plan log and frame house at 306 N. West Street in the town of Culpeper, Virginia, begun in the late 18th century as a one-room plank log building and enlarged in the early 19th century and again around 1835-40.","why_significant":"The house is described as the only known surviving example in the central Virginia Piedmont of a one-room urban vernacular building of plank log construction. Its successive additions show how a small 18th-century log structure evolved into a mid-19th-century vernacular Greek Revival town house. Its owners also included local political and social leaders, among them John S. Pendleton and the Hill family.","narrative":"Standing on a half-acre lot in Culpeper, this two-story house began in the late 18th century as a one-room plank log building measuring 16 by 20 feet, with its gable end toward West Street. Around the early 19th century a frame wing of the same size was added, creating a hall-and-parlor house. Further additions about 1835-40 produced a three-bay frame I-house facing the street, with the original log section kept as a rear ell. Surviving details include Federal mantels and woodwork, a Greek Revival door surround in the south room, and a corner of the original log wall. Deed records suggest the first building may have served commercial or mixed commercial and residential purposes. No other urban plank log structure is known to survive in the central Virginia Piedmont. Owners included John S. Pendleton, later a congressman and diplomat, Dr. Philip C. Slaughter, and the Hill family, who held the house from 1888 to 1944.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1775-1840","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling, as it was historically. Three noncontributing outbuildings stand behind it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.764652-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/6802/41680291/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89000203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000203/966ee42fc8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000203/966ee42fc8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slaughter-Hill_House,_Culpeper.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slaughter-Hill_House,_Culpeper.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680291","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter%E2%80%93Hill_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7539008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/culpeper-county/slaughter-hill-house-89000203/"}