{"nrhp_refnum":"95000393","name":"Chuckatuck Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File No. 133-692","See Also:Godwin--Knight House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 10/32 and VA 125","address_restricted":false,"city":"Suffolk (Independent City)","county":"Suffolk","state":"VA","lat":36.86162409000005,"lon":-76.57831709453262,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-04-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A village historic district at the junction of State Routes 10/32 (Kings Highway) and 125 (Godwin Boulevard) in the northern part of Suffolk, Virginia, formerly Nansemond County. It holds mostly houses from the late 18th to early 20th centuries, plus a church and commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The district shows the continuous growth of a rural crossroads trading village, with the greatest building activity around the turn of the twentieth century. Its buildings range from Federal and Queen Anne to Foursquare, Bungalow and Colonial Revival. It is also tied to Virginia Governor Mills Godwin, who grew up in the village.","narrative":"Chuckatuck is a small village in northern Suffolk, Virginia, centered where Kings Highway meets Godwin Boulevard. The historic district takes in about sixty residences, a Methodist church and a few commercial buildings, with most houses set back similarly on lots with mature landscaping. Buildings date from roughly 1780 to the mid-twentieth century. Early Federal dwellings such as the Cannon and Howell houses sit alongside Queen Anne houses, American Foursquares, Bungalows and Colonial Revival homes. Several small bungalows were reportedly built to house employees of the Lone Star Cement Company. The Gwaltney Store, a converted early nineteenth-century dwelling, marks the main intersection. Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church was rebuilt in 1893. The district reflects the village's role as a local trading center, its growth in the early twentieth century, and its connection to Mills Godwin, twice governor of Virginia, who grew up in a Kings Highway house.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Classical Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic functions of single dwellings, a church and a store continue today.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.15104-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/6838/41683849/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000393.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000393/797c8ebd8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000393/797c8ebd8d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Joel Bradshaw","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffolk-Chuckatuck-WesleyChapel.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Joel Bradshaw</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffolk-Chuckatuck-WesleyChapel.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683849","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckatuck_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16208974"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/suffolk/chuckatuck-historic-district-95000393/"}