Adam Thoroughgood House

Adam Thoroughgood House

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caption = End gable of Thoroughgood House, before 1957 restoration, photo from Historic American Buildings Survey
location= 1636 Parrish Road
Virginia Beach, Virginia
lat_degrees = 36
lat_minutes = 53
lat_seconds = 36
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 76
long_minutes = 6
long_seconds = 47
long_direction = W
locmapin = Virginia
area =
built =1636
architect= Thoroughgood,Adam
architecture= Other
designated= October 09, 1960cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=700&ResourceType=Building
title= Thoroughgood, Adam, House |accessdate=2008-06-27|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966
governing_body = Local
refnum=66000921cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Adam Thoroughgood House, is a brick house in located within the neighborhood of Thoroughgood, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The earliest portion was built in 1636. Fully-restored, it currently serves as a museum. Much of the current structure was most likely the house of the grandson of Adam Thoroughgood.

Adam Thoroughgood

Adam Thoroughgood (1604-1640), an indentured servant who arrived in Virginia in 1622, became a community leader, a member of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown, and was granted a piece of land in 1635.

Adam Thoroughgood was from Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, and the naming of many local features can be traced back to his childhood home, including the Lynnhaven River, 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 place

It is listed in the US National Register of Historic Places. Another surviving 17th century house in Virginia Beach is the Adam Keeling House.

References

External links

* [http://www.virginiabeachhistory.org/thoroughgoodhouse.html Information]
* [http://www.vbgov.com/sites/libraries/history/book1pg5.html wwwVBgov.com]


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