NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: _Appomattox Court House ______________ _____ Other names/site number: _ Appomattox Court House National Historical Park __________ Name of related multiple property listing : __N/A_________________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: _ Appomattox Court House National Historical Park ________________ City or town: _Appomattox________ State: _Virginia______ County: _Appomattox_____ Not For Publication: Vicinity: ___________________________________________________ _________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _X__ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: _X__ national _X__ statewide _X__ local Applicable National Register Criteria: _X__ A _X__ B _X__ C _X__ D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______________________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property X meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Virginia Department of Historic Resources Title : State Historic Preservation Officer State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Appomattox Court House NHS Appomattox, Virginia Name of Property County and State ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State X Public – Federal X Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) X District Site Structure Object Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Appomattox Court House NHS Appomattox, Virginia Name of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing __ 0_____ ____16_______ buildings __ 12_____ _____0_______ sites ___ 4______ _____9_______ structures ___ 1______ _____1_______ objects __ 17______ __ __26______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register _68________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) AGRICULTURE/agricultural field AGRICULTURE/processing COMMERCE/TRADE/professional COMMERCE/TRADE/specialty store DEFENSE/battle site DOMESTIC/single dwelling DOMESTIC/secondary structure DOMESTIC/hotel GOVERNMENT/correctional facility GOVERNMENT/courthouse FUNERARY/cemetery RECREATION AND CULTURE/monument/marker Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) LANDSCAPE/park RECREATION AND CULTURE/outdoor recreation RECREATION AND CULTURE/museum RECREATION AND CULTURE/monument/marker FUNERARY/cemetery Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Appomattox Court House NHS Appomattox, Virginia Name of Property County and State _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) EARLY REPUBLIC/Federal MID-19 TH CENTURY/Greek Revival OTHER/I-house OTHER/Split-log cabin ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: _STONE, BRICK, WOOD, ASPHALT, METAL Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (NHP) Historic District (District) encompasses 1,775.01 acres in the Clover Hill Magisterial District of Appomattox County, nestled in the rolling Piedmont foothills of the Appalachian (Blue Ridge) Mountains in south-central Virginia, approximately 92 miles west of Richmond and 18 miles east of Lynchburg. The District includes a re-created nineteenth- century town; resources associated with the April 9, 1865, Battle of Appomattox Court House and the subsequent surrender of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee to Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant that effectively ended the Civil War; and a series of late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century monuments commemorating the site. 1 The paved, two-lane, curvilinear corridor of Old Court House Road (State Route 24) bisects the larger 1,773.26-acre portion of the District into two discontiguous sections. The District also includes a smaller 1.75-acre parcel located three miles to the northeast along Route 24. 1 The District’s present appearance is largely the result of the preservation and commemoration efforts undertaken by the National Park Service between 1940 and 1968, which included the stabilization, rehabilitation, and restoration of existing nineteenth-century resources as well as the reconstruction of missing or damaged resources. This registration form uses the terms indicated on construction drawings or completion reports prepared by the Park Service to describe the work relating to individual resources. Section 7 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Appomattox Court House NHS Appomattox, Virginia Name of Property County and State The District boundary follows the authorized boundary of Appomattox Court House NHP and encompasses a total of 85 contributing resources (30 buildings, 4 structures, 9 objects, and 42 sites), of which 68 were previously listed. 2 The contributing resources include 14 reconstructed and 15 restored buildings and consist of residences; outbuildings; businesses (law offices and stores); institutions (a courthouse and jail); roads and road traces; fencing (reconstructed); a lamp post (reconstructed); military breastworks; culverts; memorial tablets and monuments; designed, vernacular, and historic landscapes; building ruins; and cemeteries. This nomination also identifies 26 non-contributing resources (16 buildings, 9 structures, and 1 object) primarily consisting of early to late twentieth-century residences and outbuildings and mid- to late twentieth-century park buildings that lack associations with the District’s significant historic contexts. Summary of Previous Documentation By an Act of the United States Congress on August 13, 1935 (49 Stat. 613), the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to acquire title to all the land, structures and other property within a distance of 1.5 miles from the Appomattox Courthouse site for the establishment of a national historical monument to be administered by the National Park Service. On August 15, 1954, the property was re-designated as Appomattox Court House NHP by an Act of the United States Congress “for the purpose of commemorating the termination of the War Between the States which was brought about by the surrender of the army under General Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant General U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in the State of Virginia on April 9, 1865, and for the further purpose of honoring those who engaged in this tremendous conflict” (68 Stat. 54). Appomattox Court House