{"nrhp_refnum":"04000855","name":"Montrose","other_names":["VDHR file # 026-0031"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19216 Old White Oak Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKenney","county":"Dinwiddie County","state":"VA","lat":37.00761922000004,"lon":-77.77720343535239,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Montrose is a one-and-a-half story, three-bay, center-hall frame farmhouse at 19216 Old White Oak Road near McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, with a smokehouse and a non-contributing cattle shed on 16.5 acres. It dates from about 1825 and is described as 175 years old; the architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Montrose is a typical small Virginia farmhouse that evolved over time, with changes reflecting post-Civil War social and economic shifts and the arrival of electricity and running water. It is also the birthplace of Confederate General Roger Atkinson Pryor in 1828. It is described as a rare survivor, since at least half of the pre-Greek Revival buildings surveyed in the county in 1970 have been lost.","narrative":"Montrose is a frame farmhouse near McKenney in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, begun around 1825 as a three-bay, story-and-a-half dwelling with a center hall, pedimented dormers and stone end chimneys with brick stacks. Over time it grew into an L-shaped house. After the Civil War a former law office was moved to the rear to serve as an attached kitchen, and porches were enlarged in the 1890s and 1920s. Inside are an Adam-style dining room mantel with sunburst detail, late Georgian bedroom mantels and false-grained doors. A board-and-batten smokehouse stands to the west. Montrose was the birthplace in 1828 of Roger Atkinson Pryor, a lawyer, newspaperman, Confederate general and later New York judge, and it is the only surviving house his family owned. The Baskerville family lived there for generations. A 1970 county survey suggests at least half of the earlier buildings it recorded are gone, which makes Montrose a rare survivor. It was restored in the 1990s.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1825-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic; Federal I-house","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house was restored in the 1990s after sitting long vacant and is now used as a weekend home; the smokehouse survives and the cattle shed is used as a woodshed and storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.674377-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/6804/41680401/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000855.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000855/25af5b27e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000855/25af5b27e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MONTROSE;_DINWIDDIE_COLLEGE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:MONTROSE;_DINWIDDIE_COLLEGE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680401","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose_(McKenney,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712886"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/dinwiddie-county/montrose-04000855/"}