{"nrhp_refnum":"06001043","name":"Pleasant View","other_names":["Vdhr 009-0207"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5050 Bellevue Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Forest","county":"Bedford (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.347720483000046,"lon":-79.36289195500564,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick farmhouse with a small cemetery and several 19th-century outbuildings on a wooded lot in the Bellevue area of rural Bedford County, Virginia, built about 1840 for planter William C. Leftwich.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion C for architecture, citing its quality of design and workmanship and the rarity of its form. It is nearly identical to the nearby Terrace View, and is the better preserved of the two \"sister houses.\" Its largely unaltered condition extends the period of significance to 1956.","narrative":"Pleasant View is a brick farmhouse in the Bellevue area of northwestern Bedford County, Virginia, built around 1840 for the wealthy planter William C. Leftwich. The two-story house has a symmetrical five-bay front, a central hall plan, and walls of handmade brick laid in Flemish bond on the front. Details include doors on both floors, wood lintels with patera cornerblocks, carved mantels, tall chimney presses and original pine floors. Its style blends Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival influences, and the woodwork draws on Asher Benjamin's pattern books. The property also includes a smokehouse, part of a saddlebag kitchen and quarters building, a brick cistern and a stone-walled cemetery holding the grave of Dr. Granville Brown, a later owner. The house closely resembles nearby Terrace View, and brick comparisons support the 1840 date over a later oral tradition. It is listed for its architecture and its exceptionally unaltered condition.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1840-1956","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with a cemetery and secondary structures. The form describes the house as exceptionally well preserved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.834717-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/6797/41679732/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06001043.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001043/051a12346b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001043/051a12346b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_View_near_Forest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_View_near_Forest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679732","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_View_(Forest,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713076"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bedford/pleasant-view-06001043/"}