{"nrhp_refnum":"00000496","name":"Rivermont","other_names":["VDHR Site No. 118--0203"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"205 F St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynchburg (Independent City)","county":"Lynchburg","state":"VA","lat":37.424803516000054,"lon":-79.14700438599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rivermont is a two-story Greek Revival frame house at 205 F Street in the Daniel's Hill neighborhood of Lynchburg, Virginia, completed around 1852 for Judge William Daniel Jr. and built by the contractors Bailey and Lanahan. A wall and walkway on the lot are also counted as a contributing structure.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion C for the quality of its surviving exterior and interior finishes, which adapt designs from William Ranlett's The American Architect. It is also significant under Criterion B for its association with William Daniel Jr. and Major Edward S. Hutter, who shaped the development of Daniel's Hill and Lynchburg's growth. Hutter later led the Rivermont Company, the city's largest land company of the 1880s-1890s.","narrative":"Rivermont is a two-story Greek Revival frame house at 205 F Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, finished around 1852 for Judge William Daniel Jr. and his second wife, Elizabeth Hannah Cabell. The Lynchburg firm Bailey and Lanahan built it, adapting details from William Ranlett's The American Architect, including a front portico with Tower of the Winds columns. Large tripartite windows, a center-passage plan and Greek Revival mantels survive. After the Civil War, civil engineer and developer Major Edward S. Hutter acquired the house. Both Daniel and Hutter helped shape the Daniel's Hill neighborhood, and Hutter's Rivermont Company, founded in 1890 and named for the house, platted curvilinear streets on thousands of acres northwest of the city. The house was judged significant for its architecture and for these two men, with a period of significance running from 1852 to Hutter's death in 1904. Decades of neglect and later division into apartments left it in poor condition, but a preservation group has stabilized it ahead of a planned restoration as a house museum.","period_of_significance":"1852-1904","architect_builder":"Bailey and Lanahan (contractors)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"In poor repair inside and out; stabilization work since 1997 precedes a planned restoration as a house museum. Current function is listed as work in progress.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.868256-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/6817/41681761/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/00000496.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000496/2b37493ab1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000496/2b37493ab1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Eli Pousson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rivermont_Lynchburg_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Pousson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rivermont_Lynchburg_VA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83003289","name":"Daniel's Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/daniels-hill-historic-district-83003289/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681761","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivermont","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7338268"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lynchburg/rivermont-00000496/"}