{"nrhp_refnum":"03000449","name":"Pleasant Grove","other_names":["Joseph Deyerle House, Deyerle Homeplace","Glenva, 80-25"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4377 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salem","county":"Roanoke (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.27053862200006,"lon":-80.14179653899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pleasant Grove, also called the Joseph Deyerle House, is a red brick Greek Revival mansion with surviving outbuildings on a 7.87-acre parcel on West Main Street (US 11/460) near Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia. It was built in 1853 as the center of a mid-nineteenth-century plantation.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A in architecture and agriculture for the work of Joseph Deyerle and his son James Crawford Deyerle as builders in southwestern Virginia, and for Joseph's prominence as a farmer and whiskey distiller. Under Criterion C, it is an intact farmstead and a mid-nineteenth-century landmark of the regional Greek Revival style that Deyerle family members brought to the Roanoke region.","narrative":"Pleasant Grove is a two-story red brick mansion near Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia, completed in 1853 as the heart of a plantation that once covered about 1,150 acres. Today the house sits with its surviving dependencies on 7.87 acres beside US 11/460, with Interstate 81 marking the northern edge. Built in the regional Greek Revival style, it has an Ionic portico, a detailed entrance with sidelights, a central hall plan with eight large rooms, and eight individually carved mantels, many by the German immigrant carpenter Gustavus Sedon. Outbuildings include a kitchen, springhouse, smokehouse, servant's house and an early garage. The property is significant for the building careers of Joseph Deyerle and his son James Crawford Deyerle, who had earlier done brickwork on the Main Building at Roanoke College, and for Joseph's standing as a farmer and whiskey distiller. It is also valued as an intact example of a style the Deyerle family helped establish in the Roanoke region.","period_of_significance":"1853-1953","architect_builder":"Deyerle, Joseph; Deyerle, James Crawford; Sedon, Gustavus","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house and several dependencies survive in remarkable condition; the property remains a single dwelling, with outbuildings used for storage, shop and garage space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.550235-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/6832/41683257/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000449.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000449/37356549d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000449/37356549d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Molly Cardenas","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PleasantGrove.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Molly Cardenas</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PleasantGrove.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683257","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Grove_(Salem,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15267041"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/roanoke/pleasant-grove-03000449/"}