Built 1854 (1854) NRHP Reference # 84003542 Designated VLR May 15, 1984 Area 7,300 m² | Architectural style Picturesque VLR # 114-0050 Opened 1854 Added to NRHP 16 August 1984 | |
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Location 125 S. Willard Ave., Hampton, Virginia Similar Bluebird Gap Farm, Fort Monroe, Fort Wool, Hampton University Museum, War Memorial Stadium | ||
Reuben Clark House, also known as Willow Dell, is a historic home located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1854, and is a two-story, wood-frame dwelling. A kitchen wing was added to the main block between 1901–04, and further additions were made to the house in the 1920s. The house feature a one-story wooden porch which wraps around the corner of the house and also shelters five bays of the front facade. It is one of Hampton's oldest surviving residences and its sole example of the Picturesque style. During the American Civil War, its large well was used by the Union Navy to supply large quantities of water for the boilers of the USS Minnesota. Its builder, Reuben Clark (1805-1895), was a prosperous merchant and steamboat captain.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.