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The Thoroughgood House is a brick house located at 1636 Parish Road, in the neighborhood of Thoroughgood, in
It was designated a
Adam Thoroughgood House (Official Website)Adam Thoroughgood House, 1636 Parish Road (Thoroughgood Road), Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach, VA
3 photos, 9 measured drawings, 5 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at
Virginia National Historic Landmarks
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Virginia Beach, Virginia
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, United States. It was built ca. 1719. It was formerly known as the Adam Thoroughgood House. It was not built by Adam. The building underwent major restorations in 1923 and in the 1950s and has served as a museum since opening to the public April 29, 1957. Much of the current structure was most likely the house of the great-grandson of Adam Thoroughgood. The City of Virginia Beach acquired the property in 2003. A 2004 grant application to the National Park Service resulted in a $150,000 award from the prestigious Save America's Treasures program. The City matched that amount as required. This restoration took longer and cost more than expected, but the house reopened in May 2011.
Adam Thoroughgood
Adam Thoroughgood (1604–1640), anindentured servant
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who arrived in Virginia
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in 1622, became a community leader, a member of the House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses () was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the United States in the Colony of Virginia in what was then British America. From 1642 to 1776, the Hou ...
at Jamestown, and was granted a headright of in 1635.
Adam Thoroughgood was from King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
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, and the naming of many local features can be traced back to his childhood home, including the Lynnhaven River
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, the City of Norfolk, and Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk (the last two of which combined to become the new City of Chesapeake in 1963).
Historic designations
It was designated a National Historic Landmark
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in 1960, as a prime example of early colonial architecture in Virginia. It was listed in the US National Register of Historic Places
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in 1966.
Another nearby surviving early 18th-century house in Virginia Beach is the Adam Keeling House.
See also
*List of the oldest buildings in Virginia
This article attempts to list the oldest extant buildings in the state of Virginia.
See also
*List of the oldest buildings in the United States
*List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
*List of Registered Historic Places in Virginia ...
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia Beach, Virginia
References
External links
Adam Thoroughgood House (Official Website)
3 photos, 9 measured drawings, 5 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at
Historic American Buildings Survey
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Virginia National Historic Landmarks
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