{"nrhp_refnum":"78003012","name":"Red Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Brookneal on SR 677","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brookneal","county":"Charlotte County","state":"VA","lat":37.03068391100007,"lon":-78.89492871665091,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Red Hill is a former plantation near Brookneal in Charlotte County, Virginia, overlooking the Staunton River. It was the last home and burial place of Patrick Henry and now holds a reconstructed house and outbuildings, his original law office, and the family graveyard.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Red Hill is the last home, burial place and permanent memorial of Patrick Henry, the Orator of the Revolution. His original law office survives, and the reconstructed house and outbuildings, based on research and earlier drawings, give a credible picture of an early Southside Virginia farmstead. The plantation is described as little changed in appearance from Henry's time.","narrative":"Red Hill, in Charlotte County near Brookneal, Virginia, was Patrick Henry's last home and is the place where he is buried. Henry assembled the plantation from several purchases of fertile bottom land and rolling countryside above the Staunton River. Two of his children were born there, and his wife Dorothea lived on the property for three decades after his death. The main house was enlarged in the antebellum period, renovated in the 1910s, and destroyed by fire in 1919. Henry's frame law office survived and is the principal original building. After a memorial foundation bought the estate, architect Stanhope Johnson supervised reconstruction of the house, kitchen, smokehouse, privies and slave quarters using earlier drawings, photographs and archaeological work. The graves of Henry and his wife lie in a walled enclosure nearby. The 117-acre site is open to the public as a memorial and gives a credible impression of an early Southside Virginia farmstead.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Charles Barton Keen (architect), J. T. McLaughlin (contractor), Charles Welan (landscape architect) for the 1910-1912 renovation; Stanhope Johnson supervised later reconstruction","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated excellent and altered; maintained as a memorial and open to the public as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.48847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/6800/41680043/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/78003012.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003012/d78799d5c2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003012/d78799d5c2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jamestown Official Photo Corp.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Hill_Charlotte_County_Virginia_1907.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamestown Official Photo Corp.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Hill_Charlotte_County_Virginia_1907.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680043","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_Patrick_Henry_National_Memorial","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7304280"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlotte-county/red-hill-78003012/"}