{"nrhp_refnum":"89001065","name":"Greenwich Presbyterian Church and Cemetery","other_names":["DHL File No. 76-175"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9510 Burwell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenwich","county":"Prince William County","state":"VA","lat":38.74843052700004,"lon":-77.64784180499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick Gothic Revival rural church with an adjoining cemetery at 9510 Burwell Road in Greenwich, Prince William County, Virginia. The church was built between 1854 and 1858-59 with Mr. Spillman as contractor.","why_significant":"The church is described as the only rusticated Gothic Revival church in Prince William County, and its exterior appears as it did in the late 1850s. It is also the only church in the county not taken over or damaged by Union troops during the Civil War, because its English-born benefactor argued it was English property. The cemetery holds the grave of Captain Bradford Smith Hoskins, an Englishman who rode with Colonel John S. Mosby.","narrative":"Greenwich Presbyterian Church is a one-story brick church with an adjoining cemetery in the village of Greenwich, Prince William County. Built in the 1850s, it is a rusticated Gothic Revival building with pointed-arched doors and windows, buttressed side walls, a wooden tower with a louvred belfry and spire, and two gabled porches carried on rustic cedar posts. Charles Green, an Englishman who lived at The Lawn, donated the land and paid for most of the construction. During the Civil War he persuaded Union officers that the church was English property, and it was left undamaged, unlike the older log church nearby, which served as a hospital and was burned. The churchyard holds more than 100 headstones, including that of Captain Bradford Smith Hoskins, a British officer who rode with Colonel John Mosby and died of wounds in 1863. The interior was altered in 1951, but the exterior remains as it appeared in the 1860s.","period_of_significance":"1861-1865","architect_builder":"Mr. Spillman, contractor","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The church and cemetery are described as in excellent or very good condition with a high degree of integrity; the church is still used for religious purposes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.062937-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/6788/41678891/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001065.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001065/d264c000e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001065/d264c000e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GREENWICH_PRESBYTERIAN_CHURCH_AND_CEMETERY.,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GREENWICH_PRESBYTERIAN_CHURCH_AND_CEMETERY.,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678891","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712402"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-william-county/greenwich-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery-89001065/"}