{"nrhp_refnum":"83003319","name":"Williams House","other_names":["The Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 Suffolk Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richlands","county":"Tazewell County","state":"VA","lat":37.093436128000064,"lon":-81.79853167299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2-story Georgian Revival frame building at 102 Suffolk Avenue in downtown Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia, built in 1890 as a development office for the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company.","why_significant":"Built in 1890, it was one of the first buildings in Richlands and served as the main office of the investment group that planned and founded the town. Its oversized windows reflected the group's ambition to make Richlands the Pittsburgh of the South. It later became the first hospital in Richlands under Dr. W.R. Williams, a prominent local figure.","narrative":"Standing in the middle of the business district of Richlands, Virginia, this 2 1/2-story Georgian Revival building was erected in 1890 as an office for the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company. It was among the first structures built in the new town, which Philadelphia investors planned as a coke and iron-manufacturing center. The weatherboarded frame house has a symmetrical facade, a hipped roof with pedimented dormers, a long porch with six Tuscan columns, and oversized windows that reflect the founders' large ambitions. A small oval window beside the front door once served as the company pay window. After the company sold the property in 1901, Dr. William R. Williams bought it, lived there until 1943, and used an outbuilding as an operating room and the house for patients, making it the town's first hospital before he opened a larger one in 1913. The building is now unoccupied and deteriorated, with restoration planned.","period_of_significance":"1890","architect_builder":"Clinch Valley Coal & Iron/Unknown","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as unoccupied and somewhat deteriorated, with rehabilitation and adaptive reuse planned, including restoration and donation to the town for use as a public library.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.697972-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/6839/41683966/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003319.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003319/f031328df8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003319/f031328df8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Williams_House_in_Richlands.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Williams_House_in_Richlands.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683966","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_House_(Richlands,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903453"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/tazewell-county/williams-house-83003319/"}