{"nrhp_refnum":"74002129","name":"Belleview","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of VA 641","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ridgeway","county":"Henry County","state":"VA","lat":36.60659274100007,"lon":-79.8874340018611,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Belleview is a late-eighteenth-century plantation house near Ridgeway in Henry County, Virginia, built in 1783 for Major John Redd. It is a five-bay, two-story weatherboarded frame house with a two-tier portico, set on about 40 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Belleview as a rare early survivor in south central Virginia, notable for its finely detailed interior woodwork including carved mantels, dentil molding, arched doorways and wainscoting. It was the home of Major John Redd, a pioneer settler, county court member and Revolutionary War veteran. It has stayed in the Redd family and kept a largely unspoiled rural setting.","narrative":"Belleview is a plantation house on the crest of a rise near Ridgeway in Henry County, Virginia, facing east across open cultivated fields. Built in 1783 for Major John Redd, a pioneer settler who served on the county court for about four decades and fought in the Revolutionary War, including at Yorktown, it is described as a rare early survivor in south central Virginia. The five-bay, two-story weatherboarded house has a two-tier gabled portico with slender Greek Ionic columns, arched fanlights over its doorways, and brick end chimneys. Inside, a center hall is flanked by rooms with elaborate mantels, dentil cornices and raised-panel wainscoting, much of it original. A restoration in the mid-1950s added a sun porch, a wing and central heating. Redd is buried in the estate graveyard, and the property has always passed within his family. Its setting of fields, fences and a small smokehouse-turned-stable remains largely free of visual intrusions.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late-eighteenth-century plantation house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition of the fabric is stated as excellent; the house was restored in the mid-1950s and is a private residence. The classification boxes mark it both occupied and unoccupied.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.862883-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6812/41681283/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002129.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002129/fdf50c15fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002129/fdf50c15fd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"MarmadukePercy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belleview_Historic_Marker_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">MarmadukePercy</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:Belleview_Historic_Marker_Henry_County_Virginia.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681283","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleview_(Ridgeway,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712012"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/henry-county/belleview-74002129/"}