{"nrhp_refnum":"94000455","name":"Wallaceton","other_names":["VDHR No. 131-379"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3509 George Washington Hwy., S","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chesapeake (Independent City)","county":"Chesapeake","state":"VA","lat":36.613826594000045,"lon":-76.37819111399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wallaceton is a one-and-a-half-story Greek Revival house on the Dismal Swamp Canal in Chesapeake, Virginia, originally built between 1853 and 1863 as a company store by George T. Wallace and his son John G. Wallace. It stands with a kitchen building and a dairy as contributing buildings.","why_significant":"The house has rare vertical hand-hewn juniper log construction and is the sole surviving inhabited building of the Wallace family's lumbering, milling and farming settlement along the canal. It was converted to a residence after the Civil War and moved about one hundred feet in the 1910s. It is also exceptionally well documented through family photographs taken over several generations.","narrative":"Wallaceton is a Greek Revival house beside the Dismal Swamp Canal in Chesapeake, Virginia. Its original section was built between 1853 and 1863 by George T. Wallace and his son John G. Wallace as a two-room company store for their lumber and farming business. The walls are unchinked vertical juniper logs, about six inches square, covered with weatherboard, a rare method of construction. After the Civil War the store became a residence, with a dining room wing and a separate kitchen building added. Following the canal's widening in 1898-1899, the house was moved about one hundred feet east, and a new dining room, plumbing and a stair were added in the 1910s. It is the sole surviving inhabited building of a once-important settlement of mills, workers' housing and farmland that depended on the canal. The property has remained with one family, whose members photographed the house and its alterations extensively, leaving an unusually complete record.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1853-1919","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by George T. Wallace and John G. Wallace)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as an inhabited single dwelling, with the house, kitchen building and dairy contributing and three noncontributing farm sheds on the site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.261398-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6801/41680125/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/94000455.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000455/561bc50582-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000455/561bc50582-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallaceton,_Chesapeake.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallaceton,_Chesapeake.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680125","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaceton_(Chesapeake,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902871"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/chesapeake/wallaceton-94000455/"}