{"nrhp_refnum":"11000715","name":"Hanshill","other_names":["Rough House","Camp Suhling","Camp Merry Minglers","VDHR No. 005-5329"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"142 Leftwich Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Madison Heights","county":"Amherst County","state":"VA","lat":37.473885651000046,"lon":-79.15501636932481,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hanshill is a Rustic Revival summer residence and associated camp complex on about 88 acres in the Winesap area of Amherst County near Madison Heights, Virginia. The house was built in 1925 for Mary Leigh Suhling, alongside an older log cabin called Rough House.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant under Criteria A and C for social history, entertainment/recreation and architecture. The house is a well-preserved Rustic Revival design by the Lynchburg firm Clark & Crowe, and the land hosted a Y.W.C.A. summer camp from 1918 to 1922. The Suhling family also used the grounds for recreation, including a long-used tennis court.","narrative":"Hanshill is a summer retreat of about 88 acres in Amherst County, Virginia, between Madison Heights and Elon. Its centerpiece is a one-and-a-half-story Rustic Revival house built in 1925 for Mary Leigh Suhling and designed by the Lynchburg firm Clark & Crowe. Board-and-batten siding, log porch posts, stick railings, a fieldstone fireplace and hand-wrought iron hardware give it the look of a national park lodge, and the interior remains remarkably close to the original drawings. Nearby stand servants quarters, a bunkhouse garage, a tennis court, and Rough House, a nineteenth-century log cabin later enlarged. In 1918 to 1922 the land hosted a Young Women's Christian Association summer camp, drawing hundreds of girls and working women from Lynchburg groups and factories. A concrete spring box, the cabin and the tennis court remain from that era. The property was listed for its architecture, its social history and its role in recreation, with a period of significance from 1910 to 1935.","period_of_significance":"1910-1935","architect_builder":"Clark, Pendleton S.; Crowe, Walter R.; Merkey, Clyde Adrian (Clark & Crowe of Lynchburg designed the house)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Rustic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house interior is described as essentially unaltered from the 1925 plans; the property remains a family seasonal residence with outbuildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.100089-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/6795/41679541/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/11000715.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000715/81898b4f31-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000715/81898b4f31-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshill_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanshill_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679541","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanshill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712471"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/amherst-county/hanshill-11000715/"}