{"nrhp_refnum":"05000333","name":"Bentivar","other_names":["002-0127"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1601 Bentivar Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":37.27271007900006,"lon":-78.46180611564657,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bentivar is a one-story brick house on a high basement near Charlottesville in Albemarle County, Virginia, on a bluff above the confluence of the Rivanna River's two forks. Originally built around 1790 by Garland Carr, it was redesigned around 1830 by Thomas R. Blackburn after a fire.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Bentivar is of statewide significance under Criterion C as the work of Thomas R. Blackburn, an architect who began as a carpenter under Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia. The house is presented as an important surviving example of Blackburn's work showing Jefferson's influence. Details such as terne-coated metal shingles like those on the University's pavilions reinforce that link.","narrative":"Bentivar is a brick country house on a bluff overlooking the meeting of the two forks of the Rivanna River near Charlottesville. Garland Carr built the first house around 1790. After a fire on 27 April 1830, Carr hired Thomas R. Blackburn, who reworked it into a five-bay, one-story, double-pile house on a fully exposed basement, with a hipped roof, paired chimneys and a monitor. Blackburn had started as a carpenter under Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia, and the house shows that Jeffersonian influence, including surviving metal roof shingles of the type used on the University's pavilions. The Clark family remodeled it after about 1906, adding a porch, a new roof and a rear addition. The roughly 20-acre property also has a stone dairy, a hand-dug well, an ice pit and a cemetery with uninscribed fieldstone markers. It was listed for its architecture, with a significance period of about 1830 to 1954.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1830-1954","architect_builder":"THOMAS R. BLACKBURN","architectural_style":"EARLY REPUBLIC: Jeffersonian Classicism","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a single dwelling with secondary structures; the house was bought in derelict condition in 1963 and has since been brought back into habitable condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.829284-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/6792/41679295/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000333.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000333/f5b7b6cf75-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000333/f5b7b6cf75-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bentivar_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bentivar_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679295","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentivar","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712020"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/bentivar-05000333/"}