{"nrhp_refnum":"95000827","name":"Laurel Meadow","other_names":["VDHR File No. 42-244"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 643 E side, 0.2 mi. S of jct. with VA 627","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mechanicsville","county":"Hanover County","state":"VA","lat":37.63347464300003,"lon":-77.33703855310553,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Laurel Meadow is a farm with an early nineteenth-century 1½-story frame dwelling and outbuildings on the east side of State Route 643 near Mechanicsville in eastern Hanover County, Virginia. The house was built in the early nineteenth century and enlarged over time.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance under Criterion C as an excellent example of a hall-parlor-plan dwelling in eastern Hanover County and an informative example of an evolving nineteenth-century house. It is also unusual for its central boxed staircase, which originally had exterior access. The mid-nineteenth-century one-room schoolhouse is described as a rare surviving private school building, and the property has Civil War associations.","narrative":"Laurel Meadow is a small farm in eastern Hanover County, Virginia, centered on a 1½-story frame house built in the early nineteenth century. It began as a hall-parlor-plan dwelling with a raised brick basement, beaded weatherboard siding, and three gable dormers, and later received shed-roofed additions on the north and east. An unusual central boxed staircase once had its own exterior door. South of the house stand a mid-nineteenth-century one-room private schoolhouse and a barn thought to date from soon after the Civil War. A relocated tenant house and corncrib, moved from bottomland by a former owner, are counted as noncontributing. The property was listed for its architecture, as a good example of a hall-parlor dwelling that evolved over time, and for its rare surviving schoolhouse. It also has Civil War associations: troops camped nearby in 1862, and family tradition holds that General Jackson spent a night in the house. About ten acres remain, with two fields still cultivated.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820 -- ca. 1890","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with outbuildings used for storage and two fields remaining in cultivation on about ten acres.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.022535-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/6811/41681148/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000827.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000827/0cdd1926b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000827/0cdd1926b9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurel_Meadow_from_Lee_Davis_Road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurel_Meadow_from_Lee_Davis_Road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681148","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Meadow_(Mechanicsville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712691"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/hanover-county/laurel-meadow-95000827/"}