Woodhouse House (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
36.730277777778 - 76.051111111111Koordinaten: 36 ° 43 ' 49 "N, 76 ° 3' 4 " W
The Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia, also known as Fountain House or Simmons House, is a 1810 built house in the Federal style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The building is located south of the Virginia Beach Courthouse, but is still surrounded despite increasing progressive urban development of farmland.
Estate
The house is newly built in post and beam construction wooden house with two floors. The chimney is brick in the American Association of brick, but the upper part was carried out in the Flemish Association and provided with shingles made of tar paper. The kitchen and the smokehouse was built in 1904. A garage, a barn, a well house and a shed emerged mid-20th century, late 20th century, a swimming pool was added. The family cemeteries of families Woodhouse and Simmons are also located on the property. The tombs of the Woodhouse family lying near a dilapidated barn. The graves of the Simmons family are far 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 in 1811 by John Frizzell. Woodhouse died in 1813 at the age of 39 years and left the estate to his brother Henry Woodhouse. Henry enlarged it with the time and sold in 1849 a total of 102 acres ( 41 hectares) to Andrew Simmons. Simmons bought over time also added country and so the estate comprised at the time of his death in the 1880s, an area of 267 acres ( about 108 hectares). His bereaved sold it to William D. Woodhouse, who was a descendant of Thomas Woodhouse. 1889 William Woodhouse sold the land to Reuben Fountain, who lived on a neighboring property. It is still owned by the family. The progressive urban development has reduced the area of the plot to just over 50 acres ( 20 hectares), the house itself and its outbuildings take about an acre thereof.
The house is one of the few buildings of its type in Virginia Beach and reflects the transition from the colonial and Georgian architecture to that of the Federal Style in this region.