{"nrhp_refnum":"91000885","name":"Arrowhead","other_names":["DHR File No. 02-195"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E side US 29, 1.5 mi. NE of jct. with VA 608","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":37.98044857250005,"lon":-78.59486572879675,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Arrowhead is a 21-acre farmstead on the east side of US 29 south of Charlottesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. It has five buildings: a main house begun about 1859-1860 with early 1900s wings, a kitchen, a smokehouse, a carriage house/icehouse and a tenant cottage.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Arrowhead as a well-preserved mid-nineteenth-century farmstead in its agricultural setting. Its vernacular Greek Revival house has a rare, unaltered four-room plan, and it keeps a good group of service buildings and a board-and-batten tenant house. It was also owned by notable figures, including Governor Thomas W. Gilmer and the Woods family, whose members founded Pantops Academy and served as Charlottesville's first mayor.","narrative":"Arrowhead is a 21-acre farm at the foot of Dudley Mountain, south of Charlottesville in Albemarle County. Its centerpiece is a two-story frame farmhouse built around 1859-1860 by local farmer Henry Carter Moore in a vernacular Greek Revival style. The house has an unusual four-room plan with the stair rising from the corner of the front hall, and the nomination describes it as a rare unaltered example in the county. Two wings were added about 1900 and 1907 by Samuel B. Woods to house his large family. The farm also keeps a log kitchen, a brick smokehouse, a combined icehouse and carriage house, and a board-and-batten tenant cottage with scalloped trim. Earlier owners included Governor Thomas W. Gilmer. The Woods family bought the farm in 1890. Reverend Edgar Woods founded Pantops Academy and wrote a county history, and his son Samuel B. Woods became Charlottesville's first mayor and an orchardist.","period_of_significance":"1859-1907","architect_builder":"Henry Carter Moore (built the oldest section of the house); Samuel B. Woods (added the two early 1900s wings)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Single dwelling in current use; buildings range from fair to good condition, and the owner was renovating and restoring the house at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.579817-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6792/41679289/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91000885.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000885/6bfbdf63fb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000885/6bfbdf63fb-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arrowhead_entrance_near_Charlottesville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arrowhead_entrance_near_Charlottesville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679289","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_(Charlottesville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/arrowhead-91000885/"}