{"nrhp_refnum":"90002160","name":"Eagle's Nest","other_names":["DHR File No. 48-44"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 642 E of jct. of VA 218 and VA 682","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ambar","county":"King George County","state":"VA","lat":38.32694409900006,"lon":-77.21211553844535,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Eagle's Nest is a two-story, seven-bay, timber-frame farmhouse with a family cemetery and outbuildings, on a ridge about a mile south of the Potomac River near Ambar, King George County, Virginia. The present house was built in stages from the mid-nineteenth century on older foundations.","why_significant":"The nomination argues for Criterion C, describing the house as an architecturally puzzling building that grew from a simple mid-nineteenth-century dwelling into a complex, irregular plan in four building campaigns. It also cites Indian Town House, a moved late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth-century dwelling, as a rare survival for its period.","narrative":"Eagle's Nest is a farm one mile south of the Potomac River in rural King George County, Virginia. Its main house is a two-story, seven-bay timber-frame dwelling, eighty feet long, with clapboard walls, a standing-seam metal roof and a brick foundation. The foundation's oldest section, laid in Flemish bond, appears to date from the late eighteenth century. The present house was probably built by Thomas Jefferson Fitzhugh Grymes in the mid-nineteenth century and grew through four building campaigns, ending before 1890 with hipped-roof stair additions at each end. The result is a lopsided, irregular plan with varied woodwork and plaster medallions. A family cemetery dating to 1679 lies to the east. Indian Town House, a three-bay frame dwelling of about 1790 to 1820, was moved onto the property in 1989 to save it from demolition. The nomination presents the house as significant for architecture, citing its evolving form and the rarity of Indian Town House.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850-1890","architect_builder":"Unknown (probably built by Thomas Jefferson Fitzhugh Grymes and enlarged by his son Marshall Grymes after 1865)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; Late Victorian; Early Republic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is still used as a single dwelling. The cemetery remains in use, and the owners have repaired the plasterwork, floors and south entrance and removed deteriorated porches.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.945051-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/6814/41681414/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002160.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002160/f06cf039ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002160/f06cf039ad-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle%27s_Nest_drive.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle%27s_Nest_drive.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681414","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%27s_Nest_(Ambar,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712258"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-george-county/eagles-nest-90002160/"}