{"nrhp_refnum":"01000697","name":"Beatie, A.C., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"249 W. Lee Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chilhowie","county":"Smyth County","state":"VA","lat":36.79701882400005,"lon":-81.68566385373533,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Queen Anne house built in 1891 at 249 W. Lee Highway in Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, by local carpenter J. William Pendleton. The roughly 18-acre property also has seven agricultural outbuildings and the ruins of an earlier dwelling called Town House.","why_significant":"The house is tied to A.C. Beatie, a two-term state delegate, Chilhowie town councilman and mayor until 1950, who was also a scientific farmer and long-serving crop reporter. It is also a well-preserved example of Pendleton's Queen Anne detailing, ornamental use of native woods, and graining. The Town House ruins add a regionally important earlier dwelling owned by the Beatie family since 1837.","narrative":"Built in 1891 in Chilhowie, Virginia, this two-story frame house was made for Alonzo C. Beatie and his bride by his parents. Carpenter J. William Pendleton built it for $1,500, modeled on his own home. It has a T-plan, an intersecting gable roof, scroll-sawn brackets and a three-bay porch with intricate ornament. Inside, rooms surround a central stair hall and show walnut, chestnut and other native woods in patterned wainscoting, with original graining and marbelizing on trim and mantels. The farm still has a dairy, smokehouse over a root cellar, sheds, garages and a machinery shed. About 600 feet southwest, three stone chimneys and brick kitchen walls mark Town House, an earlier dwelling and meeting place the Beatie family owned from 1837. Beatie served in the General Assembly, on the town council and as mayor until his death in 1950, and was a respected crop reporter and promoter of scientific farming. The house is also valued as a well-preserved example of Pendleton's Queen Anne craftsmanship.","period_of_significance":"1891-1950","architect_builder":"Pendleton, J. William","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently a single dwelling/residence with outbuildings used as storage shesheds; Town House survives only as ruins. The house is described as remarkably intact, though a second story was added over the rear kitchen wing in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.61739-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/6836/41683687/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01000697.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000697/6f74392422-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000697/6f74392422-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A._C._BEATIE_HOUSE,_CHILHOWIE,_SMYTH_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:A._C._BEATIE_HOUSE,_CHILHOWIE,_SMYTH_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683687","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Beatie_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15177506"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/smyth-county/beatie-a-c-house-01000697/"}