{"nrhp_refnum":"93000040","name":"Woodside","other_names":["VDHR File No. 14-41"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 631 N side, 0.5 mi. SW of jct. with US 60","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buckingham","county":"Buckingham County","state":"VA","lat":37.549726583500046,"lon":-78.54863874436097,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-11-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodside is a two-story Greek Revival frame dwelling on a sixty-two acre farm near Buckingham Court House, Buckingham County, Virginia, built about 1859-1860 for William M. Swoope.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house embodies distinctive Greek Revival design under Criterion C. Its T-shaped plan and pedimented central pavilion with flanking hip-roofed wings are unusual for dwellings of the period in the Virginia Piedmont. It also has local ties to the Bocock family, including lawyer Nicholas F. Bocock.","narrative":"Woodside is a mid-nineteenth-century farm property on a ridge overlooking the village of Buckingham Court House in Buckingham County, Virginia. The main house, built about 1859-1860 for William M. Swoope, is a two-story, five-bay, T-shaped frame dwelling with weatherboard siding, a slate hipped roof, and a brick foundation. Its north front features a projecting pedimented pavilion with four Doric columns, flanked by hip-roofed wings. Inside, much of the original fabric survives, including pine floors, plaster ceilings, and wooden mantels. Land tax records show a sharp jump in value in 1860, suggesting the house was built then. Nicholas F. Bocock, a prominent local lawyer, and his heirs held the property from 1871 through 1882, and the name Woodside first appears in a 1878 deposition. A smokehouse and covered well survive, along with the sites of an icehouse, kitchen, dairy and corncrib. The design is unusual for Piedmont houses of its period.","period_of_significance":"c1859-1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The form lists current function as single dwelling and secondary structures, also marked vacant/not in use, and describes a substantial rehabilitation in 1989.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.293015-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6798/41679892/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93000040.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000040/f22b4c2622-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000040/f22b4c2622-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Woodside,_Buckingham_County,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Woodside,_Buckingham_County,_VA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"69000225","name":"Buckingham Courthouse Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/buckingham-courthouse-historic-district-69000225/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679892","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside_(Buckingham,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713563"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/buckingham-county/woodside-93000040/"}