{"nrhp_refnum":"03000454","name":"Sanders Farm","other_names":["VDHR file no. 098-0192"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3908 Fort Chiswell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Max Meadows","county":"Wythe County","state":"VA","lat":36.877858049000054,"lon":-80.86981467594364,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Engineering"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 170-acre farm on the north bank of the New River near Max Meadows in Wythe County, Virginia, centered on a brick Victorian farmhouse built about 1880 with farm outbuildings, a tenant house and an iron mine site.","why_significant":"The farm preserves a nearly complete set of domestic and agricultural buildings tied to the Sanders family, centered on the Brick House built around 1879-80 for John P. M. Sanders. It also includes the late-1880s Hematite Iron Company Mine, linked to the nearby Norfolk & Western railroad line. The form says the property has good integrity, though its setting is compromised by the Interstate 77 bridges.","narrative":"Sanders Farm occupies about 170 acres of bottomland and hillside on the north side of the New River in southeast Wythe County, Virginia. Its main building is the Brick House, a two-story brick Victorian dwelling built about 1880 for John P. M. Sanders, with ornamental gables, porches, a slate roof and plaster ceiling medallions in the principal rooms. Behind it are a springhouse, servants quarters, reservoir, shop, store, granary, barn, corncribs and scales house, with a tenant house to the northeast. At the north end lies the site of the Hematite Iron Company Mine, where ore was removed by hydraulic mining in the late 1880s and tram line beds remain. Sanders sold land and mineral rights to iron companies during the same years the Norfolk & Western Railroad built a line across the river. The property was listed for this combination of an intact farmstead and its connection to local iron mining, despite the intrusive Interstate 77 bridges nearby.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic functions include dwelling, store, farming and mining; the form also lists a vacant/not in use category. Several outbuildings are deteriorated or in ruins, and the store's lower openings are boarded over.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.251343-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/6842/41684221/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000454.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684221","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15275008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/wythe-county/sanders-farm-03000454/"}