{"nrhp_refnum":"89000505","name":"Pop Castle","other_names":["DHL File No. 51-75"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 659 on the Rappahannock River","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Stone","county":"Lancaster County","state":"VA","lat":37.641313618000055,"lon":-76.4252716172989,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, framed and weatherboarded farmhouse at the end of State Road 659 southwest of White Stone, Lancaster County, Virginia, built in 1855 partly on the brick cellar of an eighteenth-century dwelling. The nominated area is about twelve acres with outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a largely unaltered example of the substantial Greek Revival and Italianate farmhouses built by prosperous farmers on Virginia's Northern Neck in the 1850s. Its additions show flexible circulation patterns and, for a time, two separate households. It is also a historic site on an eighteenth-century ferry landing, and it was shelled by a Union steamer in June 1861.","narrative":"Pop Castle is a two-story farmhouse on a level riverside site southwest of White Stone, Lancaster County, Virginia, facing the Rappahannock River. Built in 1855 by James and Ann Gresham, it has a single-pile, central-passage plan with Greek Revival detailing and Italianate touches, and it rests partly on the brick cellar of a dwelling from the 1780s. A two-story ell was added in 1857, followed by further additions in the 1920s and around 1940. The nominated twelve acres also hold an early granary, a smokehouse, and the archaeological remains of a nineteenth-century kitchen. The property is listed for its architecture, as an largely unaltered example of Northern Neck farmhouses of the 1850s, and for its history. The site was an eighteenth-century ferry landing, saw military action in the War of 1812, and was shelled by the U.S.S. Monticello in June 1861; a projectile hole survives in the roof framing.","period_of_significance":"1785-1865","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is a single-family dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.200477-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6814/41681483/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89000505.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000505/08c7d45d5e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000505/08c7d45d5e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pop_Castle_estate_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pop_Castle_estate_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681483","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Castle","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15267460"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lancaster-county/pop-castle-89000505/"}