{"nrhp_refnum":"00000894","name":"Cedar Ridge","other_names":["090-0042"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4861 Laurel Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Disputanta","county":"Surry County","state":"VA","lat":37.111404089000075,"lon":-77.11259545399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cedar Ridge is a one-and-a-half-story frame colonial farmhouse built circa 1750 near Disputanta in southwestern Surry County, Virginia, on about three acres that remain of an original 1000+ acre farm. It is associated with Colonel Richard Avery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent example of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia vernacular domestic architecture. It grew from a one-room dwelling into a hall/parlor plan with a later breezeway and kitchen addition. It is one of only a handful of surviving eighteenth-century vernacular farmhouses in the area, and most of its original features remain intact.","narrative":"Cedar Ridge is a one-and-a-half-story frame house near Disputanta in southwestern Surry County, Virginia. Built around 1750, probably by Colonel Richard Avery, it is all that remains of a farm that once covered more than 1000 acres; about three acres survive today. The house began as a simple one-room-down, one-room-up building and later became a two-room hall/parlor plan. A breezeway links it to a two-story kitchen and bedchamber addition. Its pegged frame, weatherboard siding, brick foundation in English bond, double-shouldered chimneys, wide pine floors, wainscoting and six fireplaces survive largely intact. A frame outbuilding that may once have served as slave quarters is the one contributing outbuilding. After standing vacant for nearly three decades, the house was repaired in a way that preserved its original character. It was recognized for its architecture, as one of only a handful of eighteenth-century vernacular farmhouses left in the area.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1750-1800","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling. It stood empty for almost twenty-five years before being purchased and repaired in 1977, with chimneys rebuilt and some siding and roofing replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.866808-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/6838/41683899/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/00000894.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000894/6b95fd3d95-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000894/6b95fd3d95-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gate_at_the_entrance_to_Cedar_Ridge,_night.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gate_at_the_entrance_to_Cedar_Ridge,_night.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683899","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Ridge_(Disputanta,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15208223"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/surry-county/cedar-ridge-00000894/"}