{"nrhp_refnum":"80004168","name":"Red Hill Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Pedlar Mills on VA 647","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pedlar Mills","county":"Amherst County","state":"VA","lat":37.558510447500055,"lon":-79.2662309174254,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Red Hill Farm is a 2½-story brick Federal-style house with surviving outbuildings on a 138-acre farm near Pedlar Mills, Amherst County, Virginia, built in 1824-25 for Richard Shelton Ellis.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the finest Federal-style house in Amherst County. Its sophisticated design, influenced by Owen Biddle's Young Carpenter's Assistant and Richmond fashions, reflects the investment early merchants made in their residences. The Ellis family's mercantile and milling activities helped build Pedlar Mills, and the overseer's house, Round Top, is valued as a vernacular building.","narrative":"Red Hill Farm occupies a hill near Pedlar Mills in Amherst County, Virginia. Its centerpiece is a 2½-story brick house built in 1824-25 for Richard Shelton Ellis, who ran the family's farming and mercantile operations. The house has Flemish bond brickwork, a slate hip roof, a Doric cornice with mutules and dentils, and a double-pile, central-hall plan. Inside, an open-well stair draws on designs from Owen Biddle's Young Carpenter's Assistant, and the original pine floors, six-panel doors and Adamesque mantels survive. A brick kitchen and Round Top, a late 18th-century overseer's house, remain on the 138-acre property. The Ellis family owned the land from the mid-18th century, and its mill and store helped shape Pedlar Mills. Later owners included the Presbyterian theologian Robert L. Dabney, who bought it in 1869. The house is described as the finest Federal-style residence in the county, and restoration of the house and garden continues.","period_of_significance":"1824-5","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; the house and garden are being restored by the present owners, who acquired the property in 1966.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.002722-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6795/41679535/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/80004168.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004168/be860310f8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004168/be860310f8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Driveway_to_Red_Hill_Farm_near_Pedlar_Mills.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Driveway_to_Red_Hill_Farm_near_Pedlar_Mills.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679535","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_Farm_(Pedlar_Mills,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713121"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/amherst-county/red-hill-farm-80004168/"}