{"nrhp_refnum":"92000020","name":"Powhatan Rural Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 48-18"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 607 and VA 610","address_restricted":false,"city":"King George","county":"King George County","state":"VA","lat":38.25078834900003,"lon":-77.19788763466005,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 1092-acre rural historic district at the junction of State Routes 607 and 610 in King George County, Virginia. It contains the Powhatan plantation house (ca. 1832), the Mount Ida house (ca. 1835), the early twentieth-century Hudson farm, and later horse-racing stables.","why_significant":"The district reassembles the landholdings of planter Edward Thornton Tayloe and keeps the look of an antebellum Rappahannock plantation setting. It shows the progression from a prosperous plantation, through postwar decline and land sales, to a twentieth-century horse racing farm. Its Greek Revival main house and Federal-style Mount Ida house contrast fashionable and traditional building.","narrative":"Powhatan Rural Historic District is a working farm and estate of about 1092 acres in King George County, Virginia, on a ridge above the Rappahannock River valley. It combines three historic farm clusters: the brick Greek Revival house called Powhatan, built around 1832 for planter Edward Thornton Tayloe; the Federal-style frame house at Mount Ida, dated to about 1835 by a nail analysis; and the Hudson farm, developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after Tayloe family land was sold. Tayloe was among the county's largest producers of hay, butter and livestock before the Civil War, when Union troops quartered at the property and its fortunes declined. Raymond R. Guest began reassembling the Tayloe lands in 1955, renovating the main house and adding stables and a race track. No antebellum farm structures or slave dwellings survive, but the houses, family cemetery, and open agricultural setting preserve the historic layout of the plantation landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Washington Reed, Jr. (architect of the 1955 interior renovation of Powhatan)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (Powhatan); Federal (Mount Ida)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operating horse racing and crop farm; the houses are in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.593489-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6814/41681434/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92000020.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000020/c9f5fcf82b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000020/c9f5fcf82b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POWHATAN_RURAL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_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:POWHATAN_RURAL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_KING_GEORGE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681434","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan_Rural_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713093"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-george-county/powhatan-rural-historic-district-92000020/"}