{"nrhp_refnum":"05001345","name":"Bellevue Rural Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["Bellevue School for Boys","Trivium","Brook Hill Farm","Glenn Mary Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bellevue Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Forest","county":"Bedford (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.36604109500007,"lon":-79.3737015783551,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-11-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district of about 411 acres along a one-mile stretch of Bellevue Road near Forest in eastern Bedford County, Virginia. It groups Bellevue, Trivium, Brook Hill Farm and Glenn Mary Farm, with buildings dating from 1790 to 1939.","why_significant":"The district shows how farming practices and rural house styles developed over about 150 years within a one-mile area. It includes Bellevue School for Boys, a classical academy founded in 1866 by James P. Holcombe, and a small private farm schoolhouse. Its dwellings range from Federal and Greek Revival to Queen Anne, bungalow and Colonial Revival.","narrative":"Bellevue Rural Historic District covers about 411 acres along a one-mile stretch of Bellevue Road in eastern Bedford County, Virginia. Four linked farm properties make up its core: Bellevue, Trivium, Brook Hill Farm and Glenn Mary Farm. Buildings date from 1790 to 1939 and include a brick Federal house, a Greek Revival tavern built in 1832, a 1904 Queen Anne and bungalow dwelling, and a 1939 Colonial Revival brick farmhouse. Open fields and a narrow tree-lined road, once a buggy path, connect the farms. The district was listed for its agricultural history, its architecture and its role in education. James P. Holcombe, a Confederate congressman and University of Virginia law professor, opened Bellevue School for Boys in 1866, and it drew students from across the South until it closed in 1909. Brook Hill Farm also kept a small private schoolhouse for resident children. Today the farms are used mainly for cattle, horses and hay.","period_of_significance":"1790 - 1939","architect_builder":"unknown (the form also names Spottswood Brown as builder of Trivium, Andrew Gleason as builder of the Glenn Mary Farm house, and Reed E. Graves as designer of its barn)","architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Colonial/Jacobean; Greek Revival; Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The form describes the buildings as well preserved and the landscape as pristine. Farms in the district currently raise cattle and horses and produce hay.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.110482-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/6797/41679730/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001345.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001345/487f0b0c55-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001345/487f0b0c55-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glenn_Mary_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glenn_Mary_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679730","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue_Rural_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712016"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bedford/bellevue-rural-historic-district-additional-documentation-05001345/"}