{"nrhp_refnum":"95000396","name":"Hunting Quarter","other_names":["VDHR File No. 91-31"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 632, S of jct. with VA 608","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waverly","county":"Sussex County","state":"VA","lat":36.86800077350006,"lon":-77.22415932172649,"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":"Hunting Quarter is a farm with a mid- to late-eighteenth-century, one-and-one-half-story frame house with a gambrel roof, on SR 632 near Waverly in Sussex County, Virginia. It was probably built by Captain Henry Harrison between 1745 and 1772.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an increasingly rare example of a gambrel-roofed, vernacular eighteenth-century farmhouse with a high degree of integrity. Its plain exterior and non-academic interpretations of classical interior details reflect rural Virginia building practice, and its setting and records help in studying rural Virginia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.","narrative":"Hunting Quarter is a farm in rural Sussex County, Virginia, centered on a modest eighteenth-century house. The single-pile, five-bay frame dwelling rises one and a half stories over a raised brick basement under a gambrel roof, with two end chimneys flanked by pent closets. A rear ell was added in 1887. Captain Henry Harrison, a relative of the prominent Harrisons of Berkeley, probably built it between 1745 and 1772, though he chose a small scale despite his wealth. The plain exterior contrasts with interior woodwork, including a mantel with fluted pilasters and a carved cornice, which are rural versions of classical details. The grounds include a smokehouse, sites of a kitchen, office and schoolhouse, a Harrison family cemetery, and a slave cemetery without markers. The Harrison family owned the property until 1887. It was listed because it survives as a rare, well-preserved vernacular farmhouse in its agricultural setting, and because estate inventories document long continuity in its household and farming life.","period_of_significance":"1745-1887","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial: Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a single dwelling with a cemetery; the land is still farmed. The house stood vacant for about two decades before an interior restoration in the early 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.302822-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/6839/41683924/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000396/d05a8a8026-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000396/d05a8a8026-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunting_Quarter_with_tree_farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunting_Quarter_with_tree_farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683924","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Quarter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16845716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/sussex-county/hunting-quarter-95000396/"}