{"nrhp_refnum":"94000989","name":"Sunnyside Farm","other_names":["VDHR File No. 53-304"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA Bus. 7 S side, 1150 ft. E of jct. with VA 287","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.132165450500054,"lon":-77.68766575629482,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sunnyside Farm is a roughly 35-acre farm on Business Route 7 between Hamilton and Purcellville in Loudoun County, Virginia. It has a stone and frame house begun in the early 19th century, several stone and later dairy outbuildings, and two contributing sites.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C for its early-19th-century architecture influenced by German-Pennsylvania stone building traditions. The stone house, springhouse, smokehouse and bank barn form an ensemble, joined by an intact 1920s dairy complex. The frame additions show the house changing over time, and the farm also has Civil War associations and the trace of an unfinished Confederate railroad.","narrative":"Sunnyside Farm is a 35-acre property along Business Route 7 between Hamilton and Purcellville, Loudoun County. Its core is a two-story, three-bay fieldstone house, probably built in the first quarter of the 19th century by William Nichols, a prominent local Quaker. Massive stone quoins and a hall-and-parlor plan reflect a masonry tradition carried south from Pennsylvania. Frame additions from about 1855-60 through the 1920s record the house's gradual growth, including a Queen Anne-style bay added around 1910. Nearby stand a stone springhouse dated 1822, a smokehouse dated 1828, and a stone bank barn that Union troops burned during the Civil War, rebuilt in 1880 and again after a 1989 arson fire. A glazed-tile dairy barn and milkhouse from about 1922 are largely unaltered. A cabin site and the earthworks and culverts of an unfinished Confederate railroad are also part of the farm. Together these features led to its listing for architecture and agriculture.","period_of_significance":"c. 1815-c. 1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic (vernacular Federal-style stone house)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house and farm remain in residential and agricultural use. Part of the land is still used for livestock, and the bank barn was rebuilt after a 1989 arson fire.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.467306-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6815/41681583/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/94000989.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000989/4a317b2003-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000989/4a317b2003-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SUNNYSIDE_FARM,_HAMILTON,_LOUDOUN_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:SUNNYSIDE_FARM,_HAMILTON,_LOUDOUN_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681583","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyside_Farm_(Hamilton,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713273"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/sunnyside-farm-94000989/"}