{"nrhp_refnum":"90002164","name":"Office Hall","other_names":["DHR File No. 48-16"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 3 and US 301","address_restricted":false,"city":"King George Court House","county":"King George County","state":"VA","lat":38.23920548700005,"lon":-77.14918527799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Office Hall is a former eighteenth-century plantation site in southeastern King George County, Virginia, marked by two early-nineteenth-century brick outbuildings, a two-story kitchen and a pyramidal-roofed smokehouse, built circa 1805-20 beside Route 3 near U.S. Route 301.","why_significant":"The kitchen is described as one of very few one-room-plan, two-story brick plantation kitchens recorded in Virginia, with formal Federal detailing and an unusual hierarchy of brickwork patterns. The smokehouse is a large, largely unaltered outbuilding. This amended document mainly requests approval to move both buildings a short distance on the same tract to protect them from a Route 3 widening and nearby commercial development.","narrative":"Two brick outbuildings near the intersection of Virginia Route 3 and U.S. Route 301 mark the site of Office Hall, an eighteenth-century plantation in southeastern King George County. The buildings, a two-story detached kitchen and a large smokehouse with a pyramidal roof, were built around 1805-20 and remain largely unaltered. The kitchen is considered one of very few one-room-plan, two-story brick plantation kitchens recorded in Virginia, and it combines formal Federal detailing with an unusual hierarchy of brickwork patterns. Over time the buildings ended up only about 85 feet from the centerline of a busy highway, close to commercial development and a planned road widening. The owner proposed relocating them roughly 1,750 feet southeast on the same tract, onto a grassy knoll, 30 to 50 feet farther from the road and with the same orientation. The move was to include repointing and bracing, removal of later wooden connectors, and a larger preservation easement held by a historic preservation foundation. The proposal was approved in 1999.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use. The buildings need structural masonry repair, and a move about 1,750 feet to the southeast on the same tract was proposed and approved in 1999, with continued listing to be confirmed afterward.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.957135-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/6814/41681412/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002164.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002164/c8906b6109-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002164/c8906b6109-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OFFICE_HALL,_KING_GEORGE_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:OFFICE_HALL,_KING_GEORGE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681412","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713005"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-george-county/office-hall-90002164/"}