{"nrhp_refnum":"92001392","name":"Virginia Episcopal School","other_names":["VES/VDHR File No. 118-129"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Virginia Episcopal School Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynchburg (Independent City)","county":"Lynchburg","state":"VA","lat":37.45368734300004,"lon":-79.18973368685292,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private Episcopal boys' preparatory school campus in Lynchburg, Virginia, centered on four red-brick Georgian Revival buildings designed by Washington architect Frederick H. Brooke and built between 1915 and 1920, plus three other contributing residential buildings.","why_significant":"The school is presented as an example of early twentieth-century church efforts to provide quality secondary education in Virginia, led by the Reverend Robert Carter Jett for boys of moderate means. It is also significant for Brooke's dignified Georgian Revival complex, with its Corinthian-porticoed Jett Hall and the Langhorne Memorial Chapel.","narrative":"Virginia Episcopal School is a secondary school campus on a former farm north of Lynchburg. Its core is a group of four red-brick Georgian Revival buildings designed by Washington architect Frederick H. Brooke and completed between 1916 and 1920: Jett Hall, with its Corinthian portico; Pendleton Hall; the Langhorne Memorial Chapel; and Barksdale Gymnasium. Three older residential buildings, including a circa 1890 farmhouse on an earlier brick foundation, a 1923 prefabricated Dutch Colonial house and a 1926 faculty duplex by Stanhope Johnson, also contribute. The school opened in 1916 through the efforts of the Reverend Robert Carter Jett, who wanted to offer a quality religious education to boys of moderate means. Local citizens raised the land purchase price, and benefactors such as Lady Astor supported the project. The campus is recognized for its educational and religious history and for Brooke's restrained, gracefully proportioned design, set around a sloping front lawn.","period_of_significance":"1916-1926","architect_builder":"Frederick H. Brooke","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals; Georgian Revival (original complex)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a secondary school; some buildings have been altered or partly obscured by later additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.248357-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/6818/41681815/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92001392.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001392/b3a174ec34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001392/b3a174ec34-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Aigrette","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_Episcopal_School_Jett_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Aigrette</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:Virginia_Episcopal_School_Jett_Hall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681815","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Episcopal_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934263"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lynchburg/virginia-episcopal-school-92001392/"}