{"nrhp_refnum":"82004597","name":"Prospect Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Mineral on VA 612","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mineral","county":"Spotsylvania County","state":"VA","lat":38.12824088150006,"lon":-77.8777717896714,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Prospect Hill is a tall, 2½-story frame plantation farmhouse near Mineral in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, completed in 1806 for Waller Holladay. It sits on about 15 acres with outbuildings and a family cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Spotsylvania's largest and best-preserved early 19th-century plantation dwellings. Its largely unaltered Georgian exterior and Federal woodwork, with original painted graining, illustrate the spacious but unpretentious center-hall house favored by prosperous Virginia planters. It was also the site of Waller Holladay's crop rotation and fertilization experiments and the center of his public life.","narrative":"Prospect Hill is a tall frame farmhouse built in 1806 for Waller Holladay on rolling farmland near Mineral, Spotsylvania County. A cedar-shaded drive leads to the 2½-story house, which has beaded weatherboarding, a heavy modillion cornice, a steep standing-seam metal roof and a center-hall, double-pile plan. Inside, the woodwork keeps its original paint and painted graining, and no two mantels share a design. The parlor is described as the finest room. Holladay built the house after inheriting the estate of his half-brother, Gen. Lewis Littlepage. He restored worn-out land through red clover, gypsum and crop rotation, and he served as a county magistrate, state delegate and presidential elector. The house has seen no significant alterations since his death in 1860, and several generations of his family have lived and been buried here. Surviving outbuildings include a carriage house, smokehouse, icehouse, well house with windmill, and a log corncrib. The 15-acre boundary takes in the house, outbuildings, drive and cemetery.","period_of_significance":"1806","architect_builder":"Unknown (family tradition names Spotswood Dabney Crenshaw as builder, but no correspondence confirms it)","architectural_style":"Georgian exterior with Federal interior woodwork","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form lists the property as unaltered, in good condition and on its original site, with status checked as unoccupied. It has no significant alterations since 1860.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.678192-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/6837/41683715/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004597.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004597/d574083dad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004597/d574083dad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wikipelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prospect_Hill_2_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipelli</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prospect_Hill_2_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia).png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683715","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Hill_(Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7250762"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/spotsylvania-county/prospect-hill-82004597/"}