{"nrhp_refnum":"79003152","name":"Midway","other_names":["Riverdale"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Millington off VA 678","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millington","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.11267064300006,"lon":-78.60027811049564,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Midway, also called Riverdale, is a brick farmhouse on a 75-acre tract about 1.2 miles southeast of Millington in Albemarle County, Virginia. The house grew in stages from the 1810s through about 1930 and sits within a landscaped farm setting.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Midway as a characteristic early 19th-century Albemarle County farmhouse with fine Flemish-bond brickwork, stepped parapets, and Federal-style woodwork. It was long the seat of the prominent Rodes family and a prosperous plantation producing hemp, flax, and tobacco. The grounds also hold a formal garden designed in 1936 by landscape architect Charles Gillette.","narrative":"Midway is a brick farmhouse in the rolling countryside of western Albemarle County, Virginia, with the Blue Ridge Mountains as a backdrop. It was built in stages: an east wing in the 1810s, a west wing by 1820, a later connecting hyphen, and a kitchen wing around 1930. The older section has Flemish-bond brickwork with original white penciled joints and a red wash, a two-story gallery, stepped parapets, and a mousetooth cornice. Inside, Federal mantels and paneled wainscoting survive, and the east wing keeps a hall-parlor plan inherited from Colonial Virginia houses. The land came through a grant to John Rodes, who arrived in 1749, and his family held it through the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 1800s it was a large plantation of 715 acres raising hemp, flax, and tobacco, with a ropewalk and mill. A formal garden by Charles Gillette was laid out in 1936. About 75 acres remain, retaining a rural setting.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Virginia vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; private residence, occupied, with restricted access.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.86867-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/6792/41679243/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003152.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003152/bcb58eb88a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003152/bcb58eb88a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Midway_farmhouse_with_brick_gatepost.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Midway_farmhouse_with_brick_gatepost.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679243","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_(Millington,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712842"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/midway-79003152/"}