{"nrhp_refnum":"89001926","name":"Bolling Island","other_names":["Dhr-37-03"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Stokes Station Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Goochland","county":"Goochland County","state":"VA","lat":37.65615251200006,"lon":-78.04988806430072,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bolling Island is a brick Greek Revival plantation house with three historic dependencies on a fifty-acre tract overlooking the James River near Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia. Its earliest frame section dates from about 1771, and the main brick house was built and remodeled between about 1800 and 1839.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criterion C for architecture. The house shows how a small, vernacular late-eighteenth-century dwelling evolved into a Greek Revival plantation house. It is less grand than Tidewater mansions but typical of early-nineteenth-century houses along the James River above Richmond in the lower Piedmont.","narrative":"Bolling Island is a plantation house on a bluff above the James River in Goochland County, Virginia, that grew in stages over about seventy years. Its oldest part, a one-and-a-half-story frame wing dated by a brick to about 1771, now forms the east end. A brick core was added early in the 1800s and later raised to two stories under Thomas Bolling, who gave it Greek Revival details, a two-story river-side portico and a rear stair hall that created a T plan. A west wing of about 1839 balanced the composition. A brick kitchen, an office and a smokehouse survive to the north. The Bolling family, based at nearby Bolling Hall, owned the property, and the house was once an overseer's residence. It was listed for architecture because it shows how a modest vernacular dwelling became a typical Piedmont Greek Revival plantation house, less sophisticated than the grand Tidewater mansions.","period_of_significance":"1771-1939","architect_builder":"Unknown; built and owned by the Bolling family","architectural_style":"Mid-nineteenth century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as a single dwelling in current use, with a secondary structure also in use as domestic.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.718361-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/6809/41680969/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001926.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001926/96c39737e2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001926/96c39737e2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Van Aldenhaag","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolling_Island_Needlepoint.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Aldenhaag</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:Bolling_Island_Needlepoint.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680969","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolling_Island","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712051"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/goochland-county/bolling-island-89001926/"}