{"nrhp_refnum":"70000784","name":"Hidden Valley","other_names":["Warwickton"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Bacova near jct. of Rtes. 621 and 39 in George Washington National Forest","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bacova","county":"Bath County","state":"VA","lat":38.10668299350007,"lon":-79.81441647190675,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Warwickton, also called Hidden Valley, is a two-story brick mansion built circa 1858 near Bacova in Bath County, Virginia. It sits on a roughly 280-acre tract owned by the U.S. Forest Service.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an unusual example of a five-bay Georgian block adapted by a Victorian-Greek Revival builder. Its doorway closely follows a plate from Asher Benjamin's stylebook, a rare design source in Virginia. The house is also notable for its early date, remote site and grand proportions, and the land has early settlement associations.","narrative":"Warwickton, later renamed Hidden Valley, is a two-story brick mansion built around 1858 in Bath County, Virginia, by Judge James Woods Warwick. It has a hipped roof, four interior end chimneys and a pedimented four-column portico with Greek Ionic capitals over the central three bays of a five-bay facade. The brickwork is Flemish bond above the water table and American bond below. Its doorway closely adapts a plate from Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter of 1835, an uncommon source for Virginia design. The land was part of early settlement in the area, tied to William Jackson, Robert Hall and Jacob Warwick, who bought a thousand acres in 1788. The property later went to a hunt club and was purchased by the U.S. Forest Service in 1965. It was recognized for its blend of Georgian form and Greek Revival detail, its remote setting and its early date.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (c. 1858)","architect_builder":"Judge James Woods Warwick (built the mansion house); doorway adapted from Asher Benjamin's Practical House Carpenter","architectural_style":"Georgian five-bay block adapted to Victorian-Greek Revival; Greek Ionic portico","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair, unaltered, on its original site. A 1984 letter from a visitor describes it as used for storage and deteriorating, and a 1972 letter mentions restoration efforts.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.791327-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/6797/41679716/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000784.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000784/1edde6c360-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000784/1edde6c360-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_in_Hidden_Valley.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_in_Hidden_Valley.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679716","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Valley_(Bacova,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712531"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bath-county/hidden-valley-70000784/"}