Woodhouse House (Virginia Beach)

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Front of Woodhouse House in May 2012

Coordinates: 36 ° 43 ′ 49 ″  N , 76 ° 3 ′ 4 ″  W.

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The Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach , Virginia , also known as the Fountain House or Simmons House , is a federal style residential home built in 1810 . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The building is south of the Virginia Beach Courthouse but is still surrounded by farmland despite increasing urban development.

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The house is a two-storey wooden house built in frame construction. The chimney is made of bricks in the American Association , but the upper part was made in the Flemish Association and provided with shingles made of tar paper . The kitchen and the smokehouse were built in 1904. A garage, barn, well house and shed were built in the middle of the 20th century, and a swimming pool was added at the end of the 20th century. The family cemeteries of the Woodhouse and Simmons families are also on the property. The Woodhouse family's gravesite is near a crumbling barn. The graves of the Simmons family are away from the buildings in the northeast corner of the property.

The property originally had an area of 75  acres (about 28  hectares ). Thomas Woodhouse bought it from John Frizzell in 1811. Woodhouse died in 1813 at the age of 39, leaving the property to his brother Henry Woodhouse. Henry expanded it over time and in 1849 sold a total of 102 acres to Andrew Simmons. Simmons also bought land over time, and at the time of his death in the 1880s, the property comprised 267 acres. His bereaved sold it to William D. Woodhouse, who was a descendant of Thomas Woodhouse. In 1889 William Woodhouse sold the land to Reuben Fountain, who lived on a neighboring property. It is still owned by this family today. The ongoing urban development has shrunk the area of ​​the property to just over 50 acres (20 hectares), the house itself and its outbuildings take up about an acre.

One of the few buildings of its type in Virginia Beach, the house reflects the transition from colonial and Georgian architecture to that of the federal style in the region.

supporting documents

  1. ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Notes on Virginia ( English , PDF; 3.4 MB) Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d Woodhouse House ( English , PDF; 430 kB) In: Virginia Department of Historic Resources . United States Department of the Interior. April 24, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2012.

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