{"nrhp_refnum":"08000418","name":"Edge Hill","other_names":["Green Hills, Walker's Ford Sawmill (#005-0174)","Vdhr #005-0005"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1380 Edgehill Plantation Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gladstone","county":"Amherst County","state":"VA","lat":37.50359293900007,"lon":-78.92244453455777,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-05-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Edge Hill is a Federal-style brick I-house built about 1833 on a bluff above the James River near Gladstone, Amherst County, Virginia, by Isaac W. Walker. The property also includes an earlier c. 1801 house, gardens, outbuildings and a 19th-century sawmill.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of Federal-style architecture in Amherst County, with details drawn from Asher Benjamin's pattern books. Its oil brick laid in Flemish bond covers the entire exterior, not just the facade. The grounds retain 19th-century garden features and the only remaining 19th-century sawmill with its machinery in the county.","narrative":"Edge Hill is a two-story Federal-style I-house built about 1833 for Isaac W. Walker on a bluff overlooking the James River in Amherst County, Virginia. Its walls are oil brick laid in Flemish bond, a material usually reserved for facades elsewhere but used here on the whole exterior. Parapeted gable ends, wooden elliptical panels, and mantels inspired by Asher Benjamin's pattern books give the house its Federal character. A frame house from about 1801, the earliest structure on the land, is joined to the main block by a breezeway enclosed around 1947 to designs by Lynchburg architect Pendleton S. Clark. The grounds include a raised circular flower bed, a concentric brick garden, and several outbuildings. Below the bluff stands an 1865 sawmill with its machinery, described as the only surviving 19th-century sawmill of its kind in the county. The Walker family owned the property from 1801 to 1947. It was later a corporate guesthouse and is again a private home.","period_of_significance":"1801-1947","architect_builder":"Walker, Isaac W.; Clark, Pendleton S.","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Now a private residence after use as a corporate guesthouse until about 2003-2004; the sawmill, tobacco barn and cattle barn are deteriorated and unused.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.342396-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6795/41679523/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000418.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000418/0b0fa0f326-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000418/0b0fa0f326-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edge_Hill_plantation_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edge_Hill_plantation_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Hill_(Gladstone,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712267"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/amherst-county/edge-hill-08000418/"}