{"nrhp_refnum":"01000147","name":"Rivanna Farm","other_names":["Middle Place","Glen Mary"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rte. 1,","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bremo Bluff","county":"Fluvanna County","state":"VA","lat":37.73852507650005,"lon":-78.20964427077533,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rivanna Farm is a 255-acre farm complex near Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia, overlooking the James River and the railroad tracks. It centers on a two-story frame house completed in 1880 and a collection of farm outbuildings, the earliest dating to the 1840s.","why_significant":"The farm is significant for agriculture because its surviving buildings and written ledgers document 19th- and 20th-century farming, including tobacco, corn, wheat and hay, and the adoption of improved farming methods. It is significant for transportation because of its link to the James River and Kanawha Canal and the railroad, including a flag station that gave the farm its name in 1884. It is significant for architecture because of its outbuilding collection and an Italianate-influenced house built by John B. Anderson and his son D. Wiley Anderson.","narrative":"Rivanna Farm is a 255-acre farm on a hilltop above the James River and the railroad tracks near Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, Virginia. Its core is a two-story frame house finished in 1880 for Joseph Payne, built by local builder John B. Anderson with his teenage son D. Wiley Anderson, who later became a Richmond architect. The house shows Italianate influence, with a two-tiered porch, bay windows and a bracketed cornice. Around it stand nine contributing outbuildings, including a kitchen and quarter building, smokehouse, overseer's house, corncribs, stable, granary and a schoolhouse later used as a tenant house. Some date to James Galt's farming from 1839, and others to Payne's tenure. Surviving ledgers record crops, especially tobacco, and the use of new farming methods. The farm took its name from the railroad flag station moved there in 1884, which served passengers and freight from neighboring farms until the 1950s. These links to agriculture, transportation and architecture supported its listing.","period_of_significance":"1839 - 1950","architect_builder":"Anderson, John B. and Anderson, D. Wiley","architectural_style":"Late Victorian - Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings; the farm buildings are described as largely intact with minimal alteration since the historic period.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.598566-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/6807/41680707/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01000147.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000147/6688016a28-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000147/6688016a28-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rivanna_Farm_barn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rivanna_Farm_barn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680707","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivanna_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7336989"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fluvanna-county/rivanna-farm-01000147/"}