{"nrhp_refnum":"93001460","name":"Fairview","other_names":["Breezeland/88-12"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2020 Whitelake Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fredericksburg","county":"Spotsylvania County","state":"VA","lat":38.240297295500056,"lon":-77.5142457916555,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fairview is a two-story brick Federal-style plantation house with a brick kitchen/servants' quarter and five outbuildings, on five acres near Fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Samuel Alsop built it in 1837.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Fairview is a well-preserved example of the late Federal style, which continued to shape Virginia domestic architecture well into the nineteenth century. It also contains fine examples of the carved wooden mantels and cornice details that were builder Samuel Alsop's trademark. The house has changed little since 1837, apart from mid-nineteenth-century porches and early twentieth-century additions.","narrative":"Fairview is a large brick plantation house in eastern Spotsylvania County, Virginia, built in 1837 by Samuel Alsop, a planter, entrepreneur and builder. Two stories high, with a central stair passage, two rooms on each side and four interior end chimneys, it is an example of the late Federal style with Greek Revival porches added in the mid-nineteenth century. Its carved wooden mantels and sunburst-patterned cornice are the details most closely tied to Alsop, who built several other brick houses in the area. A brick kitchen and servants' quarter stands to the west. The plantation once covered about 1,200 acres but was gradually divided after the Civil War, leaving five acres. Frame additions for bathrooms were made in 1929 and 1930, and five agricultural outbuildings date from the 1940s. The house has changed little since construction, though nearby housing development affects its setting.","period_of_significance":"1837 - 1859","architect_builder":"Alsop, Samuel, Jr.","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house is in use as a single dwelling and is being restored. The 1940s outbuildings are deteriorating rapidly, and nearby housing development threatens the setting.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.17614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/6837/41683722/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93001460.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001460/4fa9121ceb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001460/4fa9121ceb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wikipelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairview_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipelli</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:Fairview_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683722","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5430777"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/spotsylvania-county/fairview-93001460/"}