{"nrhp_refnum":"89001931","name":"Woodlands","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 676","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.101956690000065,"lon":-78.50285119016593,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodlands is a 340-acre farmstead about three miles northwest of Charlottesville in Albemarle County, Virginia, centered on a brick I house built in 1842-43 and enlarged in the 1890s, with antebellum and early twentieth-century barns.","why_significant":"The farmstead is significant for its association with John Richard Wingfield, a Confederate soldier, attorney and state senator of statewide importance. It is also significant as a remarkably intact antebellum and late-nineteenth-century farm complex. Its mixed-use antebellum barn is a rare early example in the region.","narrative":"Woodlands is a 340-acre farm northwest of Charlottesville, in Albemarle County. Its main house began as a symmetrical five-bay brick I house built in 1842-43 for Richard Woods Wingfield by brickmason James H. Ward and carpenter Patrick Martin, whose surviving contracts reveal the original plans. About 1895 the house was doubled in size with a rear wing and wraparound verandas. The farm also holds an antebellum frame barn, a rare early mixed-use design for grain, fodder and livestock, plus a 1916 dairy barn, a glazed-tile silo and a stone-and-frame horse barn partly rebuilt around 1919. The property is tied to John Richard Wingfield, a Confederate soldier, attorney and state senator who lived there from about 1875 until 1931 and later served as consul to Costa Rica. Wingfield descendants still farm the land, and the buildings and surrounding fields retain a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1842-1930","architect_builder":"Patrick Martin (carpenter); James H. Ward (brickmason)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Federal, No style","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still a private dwelling and working farm; the three barns need repairs but appear structurally sound.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.473763-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/6793/41679375/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001931.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001931/94df582b73-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001931/94df582b73-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlands_near_Charlottesville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlands_near_Charlottesville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679375","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlands_(Charlottesville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/woodlands-89001931/"}