{"nrhp_refnum":"05000473","name":"Rockwood","other_names":["077-0045"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5189 Rockwood Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dublin","county":"Pulaski County","state":"VA","lat":37.113476450000064,"lon":-80.70251265381263,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rockwood is a two-story brick Greek Revival farmhouse with a surrounding 68-acre farm complex near Dublin in Pulaski County, Virginia. The house was built in 1874-75 and received a Classical Revival porch in the 1910s.","why_significant":"The surviving text ties the property to Francis Bell Sr., a cattleman who pioneered shipping live cattle from Pulaski County to Liverpool, England, beginning in 1878. The house has distinctive architecture, including an unusual plan with a skylit central stair hall and elaborate plaster ornament. The farm buildings document its later agricultural use, including dairy operations. The truncated document does not state the criteria or period of significance.","narrative":"Rockwood is a large brick farmhouse and working farm complex on 68 acres just northwest of Dublin, in Pulaski County, Virginia. Built in 1874-75 for cattleman Francis Bell Sr., the two-story house follows the Greek Revival form, with a metal-sheathed hip roof topped by a deck, two-story bay windows, and pressed-metal window lintels. A monumental Ionic porch in the Classical Revival style was added in the 1910s. Inside, a front hall connects to a skylit central stair hall with a curved stair, and the principal rooms have elaborate plaster cornices and ceiling medallions. A planked log smokehouse probably dates to the original construction. West of the house stand a gambrel-roofed dairy barn, a lamb barn, and other farm buildings. The property is linked to Bell's export of live cattle to Liverpool starting in 1878, an early example of a trade that later grew in Pulaski County. Together, the house and farm illustrate a century of agricultural life.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house underwent a rehabilitation in 2004, and the farm retains its historic and current domestic and agricultural functions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.221816-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/6827/41682777/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000473.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000473/5841c222b7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000473/5841c222b7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AstaPro5","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockwood_Mannor_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AstaPro5</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:Rockwood_Mannor_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood_(Dublin,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272918"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pulaski-county/rockwood-05000473/"}