{"nrhp_refnum":"00000023","name":"Carter Hill","other_names":["DHR file no. 083-5012"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Fincastle Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lebanon","county":"Russell County","state":"VA","lat":36.87852946350003,"lon":-82.15903140215275,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Carter Hill is a two-story Colonial Revival brick-veneered frame house built in 1921-1922 on a hilltop along Fincastle Road (VA 71), about four miles west of Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia. It sits on a nearly 250-acre farm with a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant under Criterion C in Architecture at the local level, as one of Russell County's finest early-twentieth-century rural Colonial Revival houses. It was designed by the Abingdon firm W.H. Musser & Son and retains excellent integrity. Its size, refinement, terra cotta roof and classical detailing set it apart from typical rural houses in the county.","narrative":"Carter Hill is a large Colonial Revival house on a hilltop beside Fincastle Road, west of Lebanon in Russell County, Virginia. Built in 1921-1922 for Dale Carter Lampkin and his brother-in-law William Wallace Bird, it replaced a mid-nineteenth-century Carter family home, and some beams and part of the stone foundation were reused. The Abingdon firm W.H. Musser & Son designed and built it, and stonemason Dominick Cozzolino did the masonry. The two-story frame house has Flemish-bond brick veneer, a green-glazed terra cotta roof, a pedimented portico with Ionic columns, and a wraparound porch. Inside are oak woodwork, a column screen and original light fixtures and bathrooms. The estate, which once exceeded 1,000 acres, still includes about 250 acres of pasture and timber, plus a family cemetery. The house is considered one of the county's best preserved and most refined rural dwellings of its era, more like suburban houses of Bristol or Roanoke than typical local farmhouses.","period_of_significance":"1921-1922","architect_builder":"W. H. Musser & Son","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a private dwelling with most of the land used as farm pasture; restoration and repair work took place in the late 1990s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.457856-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/6835/41683530/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/00000023.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000023/0c2e43a2ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000023/0c2e43a2ba-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carter_Hill_near_Lebanon.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carter_Hill_near_Lebanon.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683530","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Hill_(Lebanon,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15207701"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/russell-county/carter-hill-00000023/"}