James A. Fields House | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | March 13, 2002[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 121-5004 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | 617 27th St., Newport News, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 36.9847°N -76.4219°W |
Architecture: | Italianate |
Added: | June 6, 2002 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 02000623 |
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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.