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Sessions–Pope–Sheild House

historic house in Virginia, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7456140 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Sessions–Pope–Sheild House, also known as Sessions House or Sheild House, is a historic home located at Yorktown, York County, Virginia. It is thought to have been built in or shortly after 1766, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay by two bay, brick Southern Colonial dwelling. It has a clipped gable roof with dormers. It has two T-shaped end chimney. Also on the property is a contributing archaeological site.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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“Sessions–Pope–Sheild House” enters the record as historic house in Virginia, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sessions, Pope and Sheild can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1766, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sessions, Pope and Sheild.
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“Sessions–Pope–Sheild House” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sessions, Pope and Sheild provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7456140. Authority coordinates are 37.234, -76.507. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1766 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sessions–Pope–Sheild House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.