{"nrhp_refnum":"99000969","name":"Rochambeau Farm","other_names":["VDHR No. 37-69"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1080 Manakin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Manakin-Sabot","county":"Goochland County","state":"VA","lat":37.634287235000045,"lon":-77.72159067295088,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rochambeau Farm is a Greek Revival two-story frame farmhouse with eleven contributing outbuildings, a well and two sites, about two and a half miles northwest of Manakin-Sabot in Goochland County, Virginia. The house was built between 1855 and 1860 for William A. Deitrick, Jr. and his wife Mary.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion B for its link to Professor Raymond Weeks, a Columbia University scholar of French and a short story author who made the farm his Virginia home from 1914 until 1954. It also cites Criterion C for the house as an example of Greek Revival style and antebellum building practice in the region. It notes possible archaeological potential, as prehistoric projectile points were found in the vegetable garden.","narrative":"Rochambeau Farm is a Greek Revival farmhouse and farm complex near Manakin-Sabot in Goochland County, Virginia. The two-story frame house was built between 1855 and 1860 for planter William A. Deitrick, Jr. and his wife Mary by the Richmond building firm of Bowles and Cress (or Cren). It has a low-hipped standing seam metal roof, a center hall plus a side hall, each with its own staircase, and Tuscan-columned porches. Eleven outbuildings survive, along with the original well and the sites of an icehouse and brickmaking operation. After Deitrick's death in 1875 the house stood unoccupied for decades. In 1914 the farm passed to the wife of Raymond Weeks, chairman of Romance Languages at Columbia University, who renamed it Rochambeau. Weeks, a scholar, author and ambulance driver in World War I, repaired the house, built many outbuildings and kept a 6,000-volume library on the property. The farm is valued for his association and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1855-1949","architect_builder":"Mr. Bowles (the Richmond firm of Bowles and Cress or Cren)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still a working farm and family residence, with some outbuildings (milk cow barn, two-stall horse barn) described as near ruins.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.205479-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/6809/41680971/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/99000969.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000969/29200dc8a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000969/29200dc8a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jscott","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochambeau_Farm_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jscott</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:Rochambeau_Farm_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680971","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochambeau_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713146"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/goochland-county/rochambeau-farm-99000969/"}