{"nrhp_refnum":"95000243","name":"Farmington","other_names":["VDHR No. 49-23"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1.5 mi. SE of jct. of VA 14 and US 360, S side","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Stephens Church","county":"King and Queen County","state":"VA","lat":37.78050056850003,"lon":-77.03224236994498,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Farmington is a two-story frame plantation house with surviving antebellum outbuildings on about 515 acres southeast of St. Stephens Church in King and Queen County, Virginia. The original house was probably built shortly after 1795 and was doubled in size in 1859-1860.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Farmington is an important example of architectural continuity on Virginia's middle peninsula. Its 1859-1860 remodeling added fashionable mid-century details and a double circulation plan that separated family and guest space from service and enslaved workers' movement. The property also retains an antebellum barn that has a high degree of integrity for a building type that rarely survives intact.","narrative":"Farmington is a two-story frame plantation house on a slight rise in the center of 515 acres southeast of St. Stephens Church, King and Queen County. Josiah Ryland probably had the original one-and-one-half story, central-passage house built soon after buying the land in 1795. In 1859-1860 his son John Newton Ryland remodeled it, extending the northwest end, raising the walls by about three feet, adding rear and side wings, and replacing the exterior chimneys with interior ones. A low hipped roof, modillion cornice and marbleized mantels gave the house a fashionable mid-century look. The plan included a formal stair and a separate service stair, reflecting how enslaved workers moved through the house. Surviving antebellum outbuildings include a braced-frame barn, a weaving house and an overseer's house, the last two badly deteriorated. Union cavalry ransacked the house in 1864. Descendants of the Ryland family have owned it, and a renovation was largely completed in 1993.","period_of_significance":"1795-1860","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Main house renovated 1990-1993 and still used as a single dwelling; the weaving house and overseer's house are in disrepair or ruins.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.941449-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/6813/41681395/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000243.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000243/c1ce08cc47-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000243/c1ce08cc47-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681395","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_(St._Stephens_Church,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712311"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-and-queen-county/farmington-95000243/"}