{"nrhp_refnum":"99000144","name":"Shirley Hall","other_names":["Devereaux House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1109 S. Bay Shore Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Virginia Beach (Independent City)","county":"Virginia Beach","state":"VA","lat":36.87355211500005,"lon":-76.00743041799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Shirley Hall (also called the Devereaux House) is a brick single-family residence on a wooded waterfront site at 1109 South Bay Shore Drive in Virginia Beach, Virginia, built in 1940 and designed by William Graves Perry of Perry, Shaw and Hepburn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant as the only residence Perry designed after joining the Colonial Williamsburg restoration, and the only Perry, Shaw and Hepburn house in Virginia or the South. It combines Williamsburg-inspired details in a looser, eclectic design. It also shows the influence the firm had on taste in Virginia architecture.","narrative":"Shirley Hall is a brick house built in 1940 on a wooded site between Linkhorn Bay and Little Neck Creek in Virginia Beach, then part of rural Princess Anne County. It was built for James H. Devereaux, Jr., a Norfolk shipping operator, and designed by William Graves Perry of the Boston firm Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, known for the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg. The main block follows an Eighteenth-Century Revival style, with Flemish bond brickwork, twin chimneys, a hipped roof with a widow's walk, and a service wing. A waterside loggia of ironwork recalls the owners' New Orleans roots. Inside, a reused Virginia staircase from the Hunter House and cypress floors from a Louisiana plantation house add salvaged character. The house is considered significant as Perry's only residence after he began the Williamsburg work and the firm's only house in Virginia or the South. Its eclectic design draws on Williamsburg buildings while departing from their formality. A restoration was completed in 1997.","period_of_significance":"1940","architect_builder":"William Graves Perry; Perry, Shaw and Hepburn (architects); Clay Q. Nugent (original contractor)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals (Eighteenth-Century Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1997 and in use as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.001831-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6839/41683987/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99000144.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000144/24caae634c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000144/24caae634c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"James Shelton32","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shirley_Hall.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">James Shelton32</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:Shirley_Hall.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683987","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900145"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/virginia-beach/shirley-hall-99000144/"}