{"nrhp_refnum":"80004176","name":"Perry Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 56","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saint Joy","county":"Buckingham County","state":"VA","lat":37.56283104450006,"lon":-78.63267761131137,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Gothic Revival cottage near Saint Joy, off State Route 56 in Buckingham County, Virginia, built ca. 1851-52 by Colonel Thomas Moseley Bondurant on a roughly 42-acre hilltop tract.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Perry Hill a rare example of Gothic Revival cottage architecture built as a country residence in Piedmont Virginia, a style that had limited acceptance in the region. It is also tied to the Perkins, Moseley, Bondurant and Hall families, early Buckingham County settlers, and it is among the few plantation-era properties of the area to survive with integrity.","narrative":"Perry Hill is a two-story brick country house in Buckingham County, Virginia, built about 1851-52 for the daughter and son-in-law of Colonel Thomas Moseley Bondurant, a Whig politician and newspaper proprietor. Its Gothic Revival character shows in a pointed-arch entry with original paneled double doors, pointed-arch windows with hood molds, and gables with decorative verge boards. Inside, the house keeps a central-passage plan, a louvred hall screen, an open-well stair with turned balusters, and Tudor-arched mantels. The property sits on a hill among rolling farmland and includes the 1803 tomb of John Perkins, an early owner. The land passed through families among Buckingham County's earliest settlers, including the Perkins, Moseley, Bondurant and Hall families. Pattern-book Gothic cottages were promoted in the mid-19th century, yet few were built in Virginia, where Classical Revival styles stayed dominant until the Civil War. Perry Hill was listed as a rare and well-preserved example.","period_of_significance":"1851-2","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; the form notes a bay window on the west elevation was replaced in the early 1970s and no original outbuildings survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.999403-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/6798/41679890/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/80004176.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004176/1e07cc37bf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004176/1e07cc37bf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perry_Hill_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perry_Hill_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679890","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Hill_(Saint_Joy,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713053"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/buckingham-county/perry-hill-80004176/"}