{"nrhp_refnum":"86001277","name":"Centre Hill Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Centre Hill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Henry, N. Adams, N. Jefferson, Franklin, and E. Washington Sts., Centre Hill Ct., and Centre Hill Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburg (Independent City)","county":"Petersburg","state":"VA","lat":37.229706705500035,"lon":-77.40035926745708,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in northern Petersburg, Virginia, of seventy-one buildings (one noncontributing) around the Centre Hill mansion, along Centre Hill Court, Centre Hill Avenue and parts of North Adams, Henry, North Jefferson and Franklin streets. Buildings range from the early 19th century to the present.","why_significant":"The district centers on the Federal and Greek Revival Centre Hill mansion and the surrounding 19th-century neighborhood. After 1911 the estate grounds were subdivided into lots for Centre Hill Court, which holds a varied collection of early 20th-century houses unique in Petersburg. The area took on its present appearance by about 1930.","narrative":"Centre Hill Historic District is a residential enclave in northern Petersburg, Virginia, made up of seventy-one buildings gathered around the Centre Hill mansion. The brick mansion, built in the second quarter of the 19th century for the Bolling family, combines Federal and Greek Revival details and is individually listed. Its park-like grounds stayed largely intact until 1911, when a development company divided much of the land into twenty-nine lots around a circular drive, Centre Hill Court. Houses built there from 1914 into the 1920s include bungalows, American Foursquare designs, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival dwellings, a mix described as unique in the city. Some are duplexes that share a building with houses on neighboring streets. Nearby North Jefferson and Franklin streets keep Greek Revival, Italianate and late 19th-century frame houses from the earlier neighborhood, along with a 1915 five-story apartment building and St. Joseph's Convent. Today the mansion operates as a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow, American Foursquare, Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district is occupied. Centre Hill mansion is city-owned, serves as a local history and military museum, and is being restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.013032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6824/41682492/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86001277.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001277/86d131c328-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001277/86d131c328-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nickmorgan2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centre_hill_houses.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nickmorgan2</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:Centre_hill_houses.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682492","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16826158"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/petersburg/centre-hill-historic-district-86001277/"}