{"nrhp_refnum":"79003066","name":"Mountain View","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2 mi. S of Chatham on VA 703","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chatham","county":"Pittsylvania County","state":"VA","lat":36.78578579650005,"lon":-79.40375884754727,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late Federal-style brick residence on a landscaped estate of about 44 acres, two miles south of Chatham in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, built about 1840-42 for Thomas Smith Jones.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a good example of the restrained Federal-style houses built on the southern Piedmont's prosperous plantations, with fine brickwork, symmetrical facade and refined interior trim. It shows the shift toward Greco-Roman Classicism in the 1840s and may be the work of local master builder James Dejarnett. It also retains remnants of an elaborate 19th-century formal garden and several original outbuildings.","narrative":"Mountain View is a brick country house about two miles south of Chatham, Virginia, set above the Banister River on roughly 44 acres. Built around 1840-42 for Thomas Smith Jones, it is a 2½-story, double-pile, central-hall dwelling with a gable roof. Its north front has Flemish bond brickwork and a bold Roman Doric portico sheltering a fanlight entrance. Inside, an open-well stair and fluted door trim accompany plaster ceiling medallions in the west parlors, adapted from a design published by Asher Benjamin in 1806. The nomination links the house to local builder James Dejarnett, whose earlier works include Oak Hill and Dan's Hill, and sees it as a later example of the Federal tradition influenced by Greco-Roman Classicism. Original outbuildings survive, including a kitchen, schoolhouse, office and carriage barn. Boxwood and a former formal garden in the 18th-century manner also remain, and the garden site may hold archaeological evidence.","period_of_significance":"1840-42","architect_builder":"Attributed to James Dejarnett","architectural_style":"Late Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site, with some rehabilitation work in progress.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.272178-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/6825/41682564/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003066.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003066/ef13f8f750-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003066/ef13f8f750-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Frances Benjamin Johnston","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_View_Pittsylvania_County_Virginia_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Benjamin Johnston</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_View_Pittsylvania_County_Virginia_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682564","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_(Chatham,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15260092"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pittsylvania-county/mountain-view-79003066/"}