{"nrhp_refnum":"90001987","name":"Paxton","other_names":["DHR file # 72-34"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3032 Genito Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Powhatan","county":"Powhatan County","state":"VA","lat":37.46311596000004,"lon":-77.8595710543826,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Paxton is a rural domestic complex at 3032 Genito Road near Powhatan, Powhatan County, Virginia, established about 1819 by physician and mill owner Ennion W. Skelton. It centers on a brick I-house built 1819-20 and includes several outbuildings and a family cemetery on eight acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Paxton is significant under Criterion C as an unusually well-preserved early-nineteenth-century rural domestic complex. Both the main house and its outbuildings retain much of their integrity. It is presented as an important survivor of a farm complex type once common in Powhatan County but now disappearing.","narrative":"Paxton is a rural farm complex on Genito Road in southeastern Powhatan County, a few hundred yards north of the Appomattox River. Dr. Ennion W. Skelton, a physician and mill owner, bought thirty-six acres in 1818 and built the main house in 1819-20. It is a Flemish-bond brick I-house with Federal detailing, a raised basement, a central-passage plan and an original story-and-a-half side wing. Behind it stand two small frame dwellings, one possibly the family's home during construction, along with a brick smokehouse, a brick and frame icehouse, a late-nineteenth-century barn and a stone-walled family cemetery. The house keeps its original flooring, plaster, mantels and trim. The property was listed for its architecture: it is a well-preserved example of an early-nineteenth-century farm complex of the kind a prosperous country physician would build, a type that is steadily disappearing from the county.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1810 to 1910","architect_builder":"Unknown (builder identified as Ennion W. Skelton as owner; master builder unnamed)","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Main dwelling described as little altered and well preserved; the property remains in use as a single dwelling with secondary structures.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.234738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/6826/41682628/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90001987.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001987/abecc3ad40-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001987/abecc3ad40-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closer_view_of_Paxton_house,_Genito,_Virginia.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:Closer_view_of_Paxton_house,_Genito,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682628","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxton_(Powhatan,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15265750"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/powhatan-county/paxton-90001987/"}