{"nrhp_refnum":"01000150","name":"Gravel Hill","other_names":["DHR No. 19-06"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3990 Fearstown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte Court House","county":"Charlotte County","state":"VA","lat":37.03692656150005,"lon":-78.7447113008493,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Gravel Hill is a two-story frame Greek Revival plantation house with outbuildings and remnants of a formal garden on 81 acres near Charlotte Court House, Charlotte County, Virginia. The main block was built in 1847 and grew from a late-18th-century cottage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues for local significance under Criterion C for architecture. The main house shows an unusual Greek Revival design by the Richmond firm Dabbs and Thomas, including a two-level Doric portico and vertically linked windows with full-height shutters. A section of the 18th-century house survives, which is rare in Charlotte County, and the early 20th-century additions and garden are noted as well-designed Colonial Revival work.","narrative":"Gravel Hill is a plantation house near Charlotte Court House, Virginia, whose main block was built in 1847 by the Richmond master builders Dabbs and Thomas for the Hannah family. The two-story frame house has a pedimented, two-level Doric portico, and the windows beside it are joined by panels and framed by full-height louvered shutters, an arrangement the nomination calls unusual and possibly unique. Behind it survives a one-room part of the late-18th-century house built by Captain George Hannah, a rare survivor in the county. Later owners added a sunken living room wing in 1912, a rustic log guest house, a formal Colonial Revival garden and a porte-cochere in the 1950s. A large barn, thought to be the oldest structure on the property, and an unusual smokehouse also remain. The property was listed for its varied and unusual architecture, which it retains with a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1850-1950","architect_builder":"Dabbs & Thomas of Richmond, Virginia","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century - Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as retaining a high degree of integrity; the house and outbuildings remain in domestic, storage, stable and garden use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.003444-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/6800/41680053/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01000150.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000150/82be5458f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000150/82be5458f9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gravel_Hill_and_gravel_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gravel_Hill_and_gravel_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680053","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_Hill_(Charlotte_Court_House,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712383"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlotte-county/gravel-hill-01000150/"}