{"nrhp_refnum":"84000032","name":"Virginia Intermont College","other_names":["VHLC File No. 102-14"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Moore and Harmeling Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bristol (Independent City)","county":"Bristol","state":"VA","lat":36.60513109500005,"lon":-82.17631043299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-acre college campus on a hill at Moore and Harmeling streets in Bristol, Virginia, overlooking the central business district. It has four historically significant brick buildings: the Main Building (designed by Walter P. Tinsley, built 1890-91), East Hall, Hodges Hall (1927), and the Gymnasium.","why_significant":"The school, founded in 1884 to meet Baptist demand for women's education in Southwest Virginia, was one of the area's earliest efforts to improve that education. The Main Building, designed by W.P. Tinsley, is an example of aggressive late 19th-century eclecticism, with Romanesque, Shavian and Queen Anne motifs outside and Eastlake detailing inside. Its plan reflects normal 19th-century academic planning.","narrative":"Virginia Intermont College occupies a five-acre hilltop campus in Bristol, Virginia, above the downtown. Four brick buildings are noted: the Main Building, East Hall, Hodges Hall and the Gymnasium. The Main Building, designed by architect Walter P. Tinsley and built around 1890, mixes Romanesque, Shavian and Queen Anne motifs, with turrets, bartizans, terra cotta panels and checkerwork brick. Its interior has Eastlake-style stair posts and wainscoting. Hodges Hall, built in 1927, was designed to blend with the Main Building, and East Hall is a more subdued companion. The school began as the Southwest Virginia Female Institute at Glade Spring in 1884, founded to meet Baptist demand for women's higher education in a region where such schooling met opposition. It moved to Bristol in 1891 and later became Virginia Intermont College. The campus is recognized for its architecture and its role in educating women in Southwest Virginia.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Walter P. Tinsley","architectural_style":"Aggressively eclectic (Romanesque, Shavian, Queen Anne motifs; Eastlake interior)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in educational use; the former administration wing is no longer used as such, and the Main Building tower was extensively remodeled in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.794823-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/6798/41679856/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/84000032.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000032/91f098d2a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000032/91f098d2a7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_Intermont_College_main_building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_Intermont_College_main_building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679856","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Intermont_College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934331"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bristol/virginia-intermont-college-84000032/"}