{"nrhp_refnum":"91001976","name":"Shiloh School","other_names":["DHR File No. 66-34"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 605 and VA 606","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kilmarnock","county":"Northumberland County","state":"VA","lat":37.76828413800007,"lon":-76.33043209199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-01-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room frame schoolhouse built in 1906 in the Ball Neck area near Kilmarnock, Northumberland County, Virginia, at the junction of State Routes 605 and 606.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only remaining unaltered example of the many one-room schools built in Northumberland County in the early years of public education. Its side-gable, axial-front form is unusual among the county's one-room schools. Jessie Ball, later the philanthropist Jessie Ball duPont, taught there in 1906 and 1907.","narrative":"Shiloh School is a one-room frame schoolhouse built in 1906 on a one-acre lot in the Ball Neck area of Northumberland County, Virginia. It measures 20 by 34 feet, has three bays, weatherboard siding, a standing seam metal roof and a brick pier foundation. Its side-gable form with an exterior chimney on the north wall is unusual among the county's one-room schools. Local men built it under trustee Elliott F. Kent, using lumber cut and milled on the adjoining Diller property. It replaced a smaller Reconstruction-era school of the same name. Jessie Ball, later the philanthropist Jessie Ball duPont, taught there in 1906 and 1907. The school closed in 1929 and was later used for farm storage, which spared it from conversion to homes or businesses. Its interior still shows where blackboards hung. It is recognized as the county's only unaltered surviving example of this early rural school type and is being rehabilitated for community use.","period_of_significance":"1906-1907","architect_builder":"Kent, Elliot F.","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as work in progress; the building is being rehabilitated for community use by Northumberland Preservation, Inc. Earlier used for farm storage.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.566788-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6822/41682292/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91001976.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001976/a202ddbfe0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001976/a202ddbfe0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JLaurenJ","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shiloh_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JLaurenJ</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:Shiloh_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682292","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713203"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/northumberland-county/shiloh-school-91001976/"}