James A. Fields House

Historic house

United States historic place

Significant dates

James A. Fields House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register


36°59′5″N 76°25′19″W / 36.98472°N 76.42194°W / 36.98472; -76.42194
Area	less than one acre
Built	1897 (1897)
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	02000623^[1]
VLR No.	121-5004
Added to NRHP	June 6, 2002
Designated VLR	March 13, 2002^[2]

James A. Fields House is a historic home located in the Brookville Heights neighborhood in the East End of Newport News, Virginia. It was built in 1897, and is a two-story, Italianate style red brick dwelling on a raised basement. It features an entrance tower with a low pitched hipped roof and two ten-foot tall two-over-two windows on the first floor. It was built by the prominent African-American lawyer and politician James A. Fields (1844–1903) and served as the location of the first black hospital in the city, which later became the Whittaker Memorial Hospital.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
^ Gregory Cherry (January 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: James A. Fields House" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos