{"nrhp_refnum":"72000400","name":"Bellevue","other_names":["Benjamin Harvey Hill House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"204 Ben Hill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"LaGrange","county":"Troup County","state":"GA","lat":33.04176408200004,"lon":-85.03948411999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-11-07","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1973-11-07","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bellevue is a Greek Revival house at 204 Ben Hill Street in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, built between 1853 and 1855 as the home of Benjamin Harvey Hill and now used as a women's club clubhouse.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of Greek Revival architecture, a domesticated temple form with unusual turned Ionic capitals and heavy bracketing. It is also significant as the home of Benjamin Harvey Hill, an orator and statesman who served in Georgia's legislature, in Congress and in the U.S. Senate.","narrative":"Bellevue is a Greek Revival house at 204 Ben Hill Street in LaGrange, Georgia, built between 1853 and 1855 for Benjamin Harvey Hill and his wife, Catherine Holt. It follows the domesticated temple form, with Ionic columns supporting a heavy entablature and a two-story portico on three sides. The capitals have forward-projecting scrolls, an unusual detail, and heavy brackets support a balcony above the front entrance. Inside are large hallways and fine plaster cornices. The house was said to be designed by a Mr. Taylor, and the grounds once covered 1,200 acres behind a stone wall and gates. Hill was a lawyer and orator who served in the Georgia legislature, Congress and the U.S. Senate, and he debated Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens in 1856. He opposed secession, then backed the Confederacy once it came. Today the house serves as the LaGrange Woman's Club clubhouse and as a memorial to Hill.","period_of_significance":"1853-5","architect_builder":"Said to be designed by a Mr. Taylor","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in fair condition per the form, used as a clubhouse for club meetings; a later note describes it as well maintained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.290364-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000400/4cfa3d7442-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000400/4cfa3d7442-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellevue_(LaGrange,_Georgia).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Bellevue_(LaGrange,_Georgia).JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84001264","name":"Broad Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/broad-street-historic-district-84001264/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209713","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue_(LaGrange,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4883901"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/troup-county/bellevue-72000400/"}