{"nrhp_refnum":"75002018","name":"Pleasant View","other_names":["Trabue's Tavern"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1.5 mi. E of Midlothian on VA 677","address_restricted":false,"city":"Midlothian","county":"Chesterfield County","state":"VA","lat":37.51171905900003,"lon":-77.62137486399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Trabue's Tavern, also called Pleasant View, is a framed plantation house with a group of early-nineteenth-century outbuildings on the old Buckingham Road near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. The west wing is reputedly from about 1730.","why_significant":"It is presented as a relic of Midlothian's coal-producing era and an important example of a Southside plantation complex. The house was home to a principal mine-owning family and served as an inn for travelers and miners. Its street of early-nineteenth-century outbuildings is described as unrivaled in the area.","narrative":"Trabue's Tavern, known to its nineteenth-century owners as Pleasant View plantation, sits on the old Buckingham Road near Midlothian in Chesterfield County. The frame house has two parts: a one-and-one-half-story western wing reputedly built around 1730, and a later two-story eastern wing that is brick nogged. Behind it, a street of early-nineteenth-century outbuildings survives, including a well house, a dairy with a dovecote, a smokehouse with an attached laundry, two kitchens, a schoolhouse, and a family graveyard enclosed by a cast-iron fence. The Trabue family, descended from a Huguenot refugee, owned the property until 1956 and mined coal nearby, and the house also served as an inn for travelers and miners. It is valued as a reminder of Midlothian's early coal industry and for the unusual survival of so many plantation outbuildings together, though a housing development now surrounds the property.","period_of_significance":"18th and 19th centuries","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence in good condition, altered, on its original site; now surrounded by a housing development.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.061598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/6801/41680139/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/75002018.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002018/d01554aa35-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002018/d01554aa35-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bluesnote","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleasant_View.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesnote</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:Pleasant_View.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680139","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabue%27s_Tavern_(Midlothian,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713077"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/chesterfield-county/pleasant-view-75002018/"}