{"nrhp_refnum":"97001400","name":"Academy, The","other_names":["VDHR File No. 66-179"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Main St. and St. Stephen's Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Heathsville","county":"Northumberland County","state":"VA","lat":37.920774049000045,"lon":-76.4747055578734,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-11-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story, brick, center-passage I-house in Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia, built in the early 1800s, with a brick smokehouse and a barn on 1.146 acres. It was originally part of the Springfield farm.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an excellent example of a small, sophisticated Federal-style I-house, noted for its brickwork and its largely intact original woodwork and stair. The brick smokehouse is described as rare for its period. The property has had few alterations and has been continuously occupied since shortly after completion.","narrative":"Built in the early 1800s on the Northern Neck of Virginia, The Academy is a one-and-a-half-story brick house on a center-passage plan, with an English basement, set on the corner of Main Street and St. Stephen's Lane in Heathsville. It began as part of Springfield, a 700-acre farm, and was separated from it in 1892. The walls are laid in Flemish bond on the facade and west end, with narrow convex mortar joints that largely survive unrepointed. Inside, the original stair, white pine floors and simple mantels remain, alongside paneling added in the late 1920s. Two outbuildings contribute to the property: a brick smokehouse from the same period, described as a rare survivor, and a barn probably built in the 1920s from salvaged older framing. Tenants over the years included tailors and country doctors, and the educator Giles Eubank owned it from 1906 to 1921. The nomination values it as a nearly pristine example of early nineteenth-century craftsmanship in Federal-style architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1929","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Continuously occupied as a single dwelling; the exterior of the house and the smokehouse have been restored in recent years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.645872-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/6822/41682272/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97001400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001400/b8510e7d3e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001400/b8510e7d3e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heathsville_Academy.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heathsville_Academy.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"92000053","name":"Heathsville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/heathsville-historic-district-92000053/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682272","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Academy_(Heathsville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713290"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/northumberland-county/academy-the-97001400/"}