Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: (Dec. 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Virginia COUNTY: ' NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Henrico INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE 0N._Y
EN TRY NUMBER •' (Type all entries — complete applicable sections) [i N\ME C OMMON : Malvern Hill AND/OR HISTORIC: Malvern Hill LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: .2 ml. N of Turkcy Islaud Creek, .5 mi. NE of Rt. 5, 1..2 mi. SE of intersection of Rt. 5 and Rt. 156, 14.5 mi. E of Richmond. CITY OR ^TOVVIvl: 1
STATE COUNTY: Virginia 45 Henrico 087 3- CLASStFICATION CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATUS (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC "Z. District • Building a Public • Public Acquisition: Occupied • Yes: o Site \ 1 Structure • Private m In Process • Unoccupied Restricted |3 Both Being Considered • Preservation work Unrestricted Q Object • • in progress • No: •
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Agricu Itura I • Government • Park • Transportation Q Comments • OC Com mere ia 1 • Industrial • Private Residence • Other (Specify)^ Educational • Military • Religious • Ruins Entertainment Museum Scientific wo • • • 4. OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNERS NAME: CO Mr. William H. Ferguson STREET AND NUMBER: New Market Road CITY OR TOWN; STATE: \ CJODE Richmond Virginia 45 TO LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: 3 Henrico County Court House STREET AND NUMBER: 22nd and Main Streets CITY OR TOWN: STATE Richmond Virginia APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 733.42 aCreS 6 REPRESENTATiON IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: Historic American Buildings Survey DATE OF SURVEY: 1941 Federal 5cl State • County • Local • DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Library of Congress STREET AND NUMBER: z TJ
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CONDITION (Check One) Excellent • Good • • Deteriorated Ruins S Unexposed • (Check One) INTEGRITY (Check One) Altered 0 Unaltered • Moved • Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (it knoivn; PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ' Malvern Hill is situated on a high bluff overlooking the James River. All that remains of the house are the foundations and the east gable end wall which incorporates one of the massive end chimneys, ornamented with lozenge or diamond-shaped patterns of glazed bricks known as diaper work. This end chimney probably belonged to an earlier structure as it is not bonded with the end wall, and the brickwork of the chimney and end wall is of different workmanship as well. Architectural investigation of the ruins has shown that the chimneys of the house may have belonged to a wooden structure built perhaps as early as 1662. The wooden house was probably destroyed by fire and the chimneys were incorporated into the brick structu e. The date of the rebuilding is uncertain but scholars generally agree that it was done circa^ 1690-1700, _
Fortunately.the appearatice of the house before the fire, circa 1905, can be determined fyom a number of photographs. It was a one-and-a-half story structure with a cruciform plan, covered by a steep gable roof with a rake at the modillion cornice.' On the river front there was an open porch chamber with side round arches on the front and sides. The arm of the cross on the rear contained not a stair tower as would be expected, but a twelve foot square parlor. On both the river front and rear, the walls are laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers both above and below the high water table with rubbed brick employed in the flat arches of the windows.
According to a former occupant of Malvern Hill, the interior_of the house featured "a staircase in the corner of the great hall /which/ rose to a landing about four feet above the floor, then turned and led to a dark upsfeirs passage and fpur bedrooms. Off the great hall was,the 'East Room' n used as the dining room, and entered from a basement kitchen'by a small winding;staircase tucked-away beside a towering chimney." Unfortunately little attempt has been made to stabilize the remaining wall and end o chimney, and the brick is badly deteriorated on the interior. z Form 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (Dec. 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Virginia NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY Henrico INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet)
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6. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Report #43-9 1967 State Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Room 1116, Ninth Street State Office Building Richmond, Virginia 23219 Code: 9i ttf SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian • 16th Century • 18th Century • 20th Century • 15th Century • 17th Century [g 19th Century Q
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AREAS ciF SiGNIFICAMCE (CHeckOne ar'MorW as Appropriate) Abor iginal Education • Political ' Uriicin PtanniWj Prehistoric • Engineering • Religion/Phi Other (Specify) Historic • Industry • losophy • History Agriculture • 1 nvention • Science • Art m Landscape Sculpture • Commerce • Architecture • Social/Human- Communications • Literature • itarion • Conservation • Mi litory m Theater • Music • Transportation •
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (Include Personages, Dates, Events, Etc.) X Malvern Hill was built by Thomas Cocke (1639-1697), high sheriff of Henrico and a member of the House of Burgesses!, who was the son of Richard Cocke (16007-1655), progenitor of the Cocke family in Virginia. The Cocke family owned the property until the late-eighteenth century when James Powell z Cocke sold it to Robert Nelson. The house derives its name from the Malverr Hills in England. o 9 Unfortunately/the house was destroyed by fire circa 1905, and only one end wall remains standing.• Although it is in ruins,|Malvern Hill is significant u architecturally as being one of the few known cruciform-plan houses in Virginia. * In addition, on ^he one surviving chimney is perhaps the finest OC example of seventeenth^century diaper brickwork in the state.\ H Historically, Malvern Hill has been the scene of war on at least three occasions. Lafayette encamped on the property in July and August of 1781, and the Virginia Militia made camp there during the War of 1812." Hdv^ever, Malvern Hill will always be associated with the fiercejbattle between Lee and McC lei Ian on July 1, 1862, which centered dround the-bluff on" • Ul which the house is located.! UJ " 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES "'.vi
Lancaster, Robert A., Historic Virginia Homes and Churches, Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincott and Company, 1915. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vols. Ill and IV. Waterman, Thomas Tileston, Mansions of Virginia, 1706-1776. New York: Bonanza Books, 1945.
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COUNTY : fx" 70 11. FORM PREPARED BY N AME AND TITLE; n u'ua.J.J., V a. J. ft J.11 J-O. lli-O LUl. J.V^ IjcHLUUICtL t^b L.uumii5 b J.UH , .ny, .ir. J in rfrrnj ORGANI ZATION DATE Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission June 2, 1969 STREET AND NUMBER: o Room 1116, Ninth Street State Office Building z CITY OR TOWN; STATE OO Richmond Virginia Al. 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION
As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register. /^^^ in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Ofiice of Archeology and Historic Preservatic level of significance of this nomination is: National • State H Local • WOV 1 2 1969 Date
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1 NAWE COMMON: Malvom Hill AND/OR HISTORIC: Malvem Hill |2. LOCATION u STREET AND NUM BER: 2 rtll N of Turkey Island Creek, .5 mi. NE of Rt. 5, 1 .2 mi. SE of intersection of Rt. 5 and Rt. 156, 14.5 mi. E of Richmond. =) CI TY OR TOWN: 0£. 1- STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE Virginia 45 Henrico •087 3, MAP REFERENCE SOURC E: 7%' quadrangle Dutch Gap V^™1777\ U.S.G.S. 7%' quadrangle Roxbury / \>' t-,__i'.. ,rn x< 'i UJ SCALE: 1:24000 DATE: 1952, 1965 Lli 4, REQUmeMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundarles where required. A REGIS 1. /-"I 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. ,' \ ( ,, \ I )
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