{"nrhp_refnum":"99000143","name":"Whitworth, John, House","other_names":["Vdhr 127-248-0001"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2221 Grove Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.552608442000064,"lon":-77.46774171099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1857 two-story frame house with a rear walled garden at 2221 Grove Avenue in Richmond's Fan District, built for John Whitworth and remodeled in the 1920s by landscape architect Charles F. Gillette.","why_significant":"The house and garden are significant for their association with Charles F. Gillette, a prominent Virginia landscape architect who lived here from 1923 and made it his private showpiece. The house is also a rare surviving mid-19th-century frame dwelling in the Fan, and Gillette's Georgian Revival remodeling reflects the Colonial Revival period. The rear garden expresses his personal design vision.","narrative":"Built about 1857 for John Whitworth, this two-story frame house at 2221 Grove Avenue sits in Richmond's Fan District, set back behind a white picket fence among brick rowhouses. It began as a three-bay, central-passage dwelling mixing late Greek Revival symmetry with Italianate cornice brackets. In 1923 landscape architect Charles F. Gillette bought the run-down house and remodeled the facade in Georgian style, adding modillion blocks, wooden quoins and a Georgian door surround. He also combined the east parlors, enclosed the rear porch as a garden room, connected the kitchen ell and built a brick garage. Behind an eight-foot brick wall he created a formal private garden with a central lawn, round pool, brick paths and ornaments, much of which survives. The property is notable as the home and showcase of a leading Virginia landscape architect, and as one of the few mid-19th-century frame houses left in the Fan.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1857-1944","architect_builder":"Charles F. Gillette","architectural_style":"Mid-19th century Greek Revival/Italianate; Late 19th and 20th century Revivals: Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with its garden; the facade remains as Gillette remodeled it and the garden remains largely as he planned it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.981318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6830/41683087/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99000143.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000143/b4440078d3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000143/b4440078d3-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitworth_house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitworth_house.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"71000982","name":"James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/james-river-and-kanawha-canal-historic-district-71000982/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683087","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whitworth_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/whitworth-john-house-99000143/"}