{"nrhp_refnum":"94001028","name":"Poplar Springs","other_names":["VDHR File No. 18-18"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17300 The Glebe Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charles City","county":"Charles City County","state":"VA","lat":37.38019365400004,"lon":-76.96911686221762,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Poplar Springs is a frame, one-and-a-half-story plantation house in eastern Charles City County, Virginia, begun in 1809 and enlarged between 1840 and 1844. It sits in a cultivated field on the north side of the Old Main Road from Williamsburg to Charles City Court House.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of Tidewater vernacular architecture, with a traditional center-passage plan, symmetrical three-bay facade and simple beaded and molded woodwork. It shows how a side-passage house was enlarged into a center-passage plan, and how a local building tradition lasted for about two centuries. It was also once the center of the Vaiden family's land holdings.","narrative":"Poplar Springs is a modest frame plantation house in eastern Charles City County, Virginia, on ninety-one acres beside the Old Main Road between Williamsburg and Charles City Court House. The first section, a one-and-a-half-story side-passage house, went up in 1809, and a commemorative chimney brick marks the initial construction, probably for Jacob Vaiden. Between 1840 and 1844 the Vaiden family added a matching room on the east end, producing a symmetrical three-bay, center-passage house with a second brick chimney. Original floors, six-panel doors with early hardware, beaded baseboards and a closed-string staircase survive. Later changes include a rear ell added around the late 1930s, a front porch, and further additions in the 1960s and 1984 placed out of public view. The house is considered significant as a well-preserved example of Tidewater vernacular architecture, and it was once the center of the Vaiden family's consolidated landholdings. Its history also touches on the land parcels later given to former enslaved workers.","period_of_significance":"1809-1844","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Other: center-passage-plan dwelling (Tidewater vernacular)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; two noncontributing outbuildings (a c. 1900 barn and a c. 1940 pole shed) are on the 91-acre property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.797524-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/6800/41680002/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/94001028.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001028/2892f5af20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001028/2892f5af20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POPLAR_SPRINGS,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:POPLAR_SPRINGS,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680002","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar_Springs_(Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713086"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charles-city-county/poplar-springs-94001028/"}