{"nrhp_refnum":"05000767","name":"Clermont","other_names":["Clermont Farm","DHR File No. 021-0019"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"801 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berryville","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.14228759700006,"lon":-77.96368838199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-07-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clermont is a 355-acre farm on the eastern edge of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia, centered on a five-part main house that began as a one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling built around 1770, with outbuildings, tenant houses and a slave cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination cites Clermont under agriculture and architecture, noting that it has operated as a productive grain farm for roughly 250 years and remains intact. The main house is described as having a rare floor plan, the only known example in the region, and its additions show Federal and Greek Revival detailing. The farm is also tied to the post-Civil War land division that created Josephine City.","narrative":"Clermont is a 355-acre farm of rolling pasture on the eastern outskirts of Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. Its main house grew in stages: a one-and-a-half-story frame section probably built by Edward Snickers around 1770, a frame addition around 1810, a limestone addition around 1840, and a connecting frame addition in 1970. The original section has a central-passage plan with a corner stair hall lit through an interior window, a layout the nomination calls the only known example in the region. Around the house are an eighteenth-century smokehouse, log servants' quarters, a springhouse, an early twentieth-century bank barn and two tenant houses, along with the ruins of an icehouse and a slave cemetery. The farm was listed for its architecture and for its long role in grain production, which was strong before the Civil War. After the war, land from Clermont was made available to former slaves and other African Americans, and the community of Josephine City grew from it.","period_of_significance":"circa 1770-1955","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial: Southern Colonial; Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as a well-preserved farmstead that has remained intact for over 250 years, with continuing domestic and agricultural use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.710252-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/6801/41680182/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000767.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000767/feb98e52d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000767/feb98e52d4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Betsy Fields","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clermont_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Betsy Fields</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:Clermont_Farm.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000010","name":"Chapel Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/chapel-rural-historic-district-14000010/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680182","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermont_(Berryville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5131914"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/clermont-05000767/"}