Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 02000623 Designated VLR March 13, 2002 Phone +1 757-245-1991 Added to NRHP 6 June 2002 | Built 1897 (1897) VLR # 121-5004 Opened 1897 Architectural style Italianate architecture | |
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Location 617 27th St., Newport News, Virginia Address 617 27th St, Newport News, VA 23607, USA Hours Closed today SaturdayClosedSunday10AM–4PMMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedThursdayClosedFridayClosed Similar J Thomas Newsome House, Whittaker Memorial Hospital, Endview Plantation, Lee Hall, Virginia War Museum | ||
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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