{"nrhp_refnum":"06000756","name":"Belle Grove","other_names":["DHR File No. 030-0008","Other ID No. 030-5369-0068"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1402 Winchester Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Delaplane","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.98015127150006,"lon":-77.95322138381809,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Military","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Belle Grove is a ninety-acre farm property on Winchester Road (U.S. Route 17) near Delaplane, Fauquier County, Virginia, centered on a Federal-style brick and stuccoed-stone manor house built in 1812 for Isaac Settle, with farm outbuildings, ruins and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is locally significant for its intact 1812 Federal-style manor house and its collection of farm resources spanning 1812 to 1956. It also documents the area's shift from tobacco and orchard farming to wheat production, and the lives of the Settle and Edmonds families who farmed it.","narrative":"Belle Grove is a ninety-acre farm west of Winchester Road in the Crooked Run Valley, with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background. Its centerpiece is a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay Federal-style manor house completed in 1812 by Isaac Settle. The house is built of brick and stuccoed stone, with a Flemish-bond front, a fanlight entrance with carved pilasters, and a kitchen wing and porches added around 1850. Inside are heart-pine floors and hand-carved mantelpieces. Surrounding the house are a stone meat house, a stone well, a circa 1830 granary and cart shed barn, and later sheds, plus ruins of a springhouse and a tenant house and a walled family cemetery. Together these resources show how a Piedmont farm moved from tobacco toward wheat in the early nineteenth century. The property is also tied to the Settle and Edmonds families, who farmed and lived here through the Civil War era. Fifteen resources are counted, and one, a circa 1980 swimming pool, does not contribute.","period_of_significance":"1812-1956","architect_builder":"Isaac Settle (original owner who placed the \"1812 I. S.\" date plate); no architect named in the available text","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"The manor house is in use as a single dwelling. The barn is in very good condition with high integrity. The well is abandoned and the meat house is used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.631138-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/6806/41680657/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000756.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000756/d2344119cc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000756/d2344119cc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BELLE_GROVE,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.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:BELLE_GROVE,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04000550","name":"Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/crooked-run-valley-rural-historic-district-04000550/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680657","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Grove_(Delaplane,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/belle-grove-06000756/"}