{"nrhp_refnum":"97001508","name":"La Vista","other_names":["The Grove","DHR File no. 88-143"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4420 Guinea Station Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Guinea","county":"Spotsylvania County","state":"VA","lat":38.16784980050005,"lon":-77.4906486085535,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-12-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"La Vista is a two-story frame Greek Revival plantation house with a raised brick basement, built around 1855 on Guinea Station Road in Guinea, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. It sits on a ten-acre lot and has later twentieth-century additions.","why_significant":"The nomination argues La Vista is significant under Criterion C for architecture. It is the only remaining frame Greek Revival house in Spotsylvania County with its original two-story portico. It blends Federal-style massing with Greek Revival interior trim and keeps a high level of integrity.","narrative":"La Vista is a two-story, three-bay frame dwelling on Guinea Station Road in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, built around 1855 for physician-planter Alfred J. Boulware on land his father, Gray Boulware, had bought. Its most striking feature is a two-story pedimented portico with fluted Doric columns. The house has a central-passage, single-pile plan, a low hipped roof and a raised brick basement. Federal-style massing is combined with Greek Revival woodwork inside, including acorn and oak leaf corner blocks. It is listed for architecture because it is the county's only surviving frame Greek Revival house with its original two-story portico. Additions were made in 1932, around 1946 and 1990, but they stay in keeping with the original design. The property also carries local history: the Boulware family lived here through the Civil War, and Jackson's deathbed was kept here until 1900. Today the property covers ten acres, a fraction of its original 1,000 acres.","period_of_significance":"1855","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling, with outbuildings and early- and mid-twentieth-century additions; restoration of architectural elements began in 1983.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.249942-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/6837/41683726/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97001508.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001508/678d75ec22-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001508/678d75ec22-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wikipelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Vista_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipelli</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Vista_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683726","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vista_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6465852"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/spotsylvania-county/la-vista-97001508/"}