{"nrhp_refnum":"96001075","name":"Chandler Court and Pollard Park Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["VDHR File No. 137-478"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Jamestown Rd., Griffin Ave., Pollard Park, and College of William and Mary Maintenance Yard","address_restricted":false,"city":"Williamsburg","county":"Williamsburg","state":"VA","lat":37.26796873200004,"lon":-76.70975203499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned residential historic district in Williamsburg, Virginia, made up of Chandler Court, Wythe Lane, Griffin Avenue, Pollard Park and Ballard Lane. It holds 28 contributing resources, mostly houses built between about 1918 and 1940, plus shared green spaces and a brick entrance gate.","why_significant":"The district was created by John Garland Pollard, a William and Mary professor and later Virginia governor, as an intimate garden suburb for owners and renters of varied means. Its houses show the shift from freewheeling 1920s revival styles to more literal Colonial Revival designs influenced by Colonial Williamsburg. Early residents included historians Earl Gregg Swem and Richard L. Morton, and the form calls it one of the most important Colonial Revival neighborhoods in Virginia.","narrative":"Chandler Court and Pollard Park form a small planned neighborhood across the street from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. Conceived by John Garland Pollard, a law professor who became Virginia governor in 1929, it combines freestanding houses on small lots with shared green spaces: an oval lawn at Chandler Court and a wooded ravine with a stream at Pollard Park. Brick-paved walks cross a sloping private lawn linking the two. The houses, built roughly between 1918 and 1940, trace a change in middle-class taste, from loosely interpreted Dutch Colonial, Arts and Crafts and Georgian forms to closer copies of eighteenth-century Chesapeake buildings. Architects, contractors and published plans all shaped the designs. Pollard intended housing for owners and renters of varied means, and rooms and apartments were let to faculty and students. Historians Earl Gregg Swem and Richard L. Morton lived here. The district is valued for its cohesive scale and its record of Colonial Revival design in Williamsburg.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Waterman, Thomas T.; Huff, Jr., Clarence W.; Cappelman, Elmer; Robinson, Charles M.; Bennett, Henry; Davis, E. T.; Muhleman & Kayhoe","architectural_style":"20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival: Tudor Revival; 20th Century American Movements/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses remain in residential use, with some divided into apartments or rented rooms; the common lawn and ravine park remain as green spaces.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.891509-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6841/41684134/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/96001075.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001075/b100ded1bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001075/b100ded1bb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Maggie McCain","credit_html":"Maggie McCain, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pollard_Park_Neighborhood.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684134","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Court_and_Pollard_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16858935"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/williamsburg/chandler-court-and-pollard-park-historic-district-additional-documentation-96001075/"}