{"nrhp_refnum":"89001107","name":"North Bend","other_names":["18-65"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 619","address_restricted":false,"city":"Weyanoke","county":"Charles City County","state":"VA","lat":37.31185907500003,"lon":-77.05546278199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"North Bend is a two-story frame plantation house with outbuildings on about 8.5 acres off VA Route 619 at Weyanoke, Charles City County, Virginia. It was built in 1819 and doubled in size in 1855.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the main house is the best preserved and purest example of academic Greek Revival style in Charles City County. The 1855 remodeling appears to draw on the pattern books of Asher Benjamin, making it one of the most academic nineteenth-century residences in the Virginia Tidewater. The barn is also noted as one of the best preserved mid-nineteenth-century barns north of the James River.","narrative":"North Bend is a frame plantation house at Weyanoke in Charles City County, Virginia, with a barn, smokehouse, dairy and wellhouse around it. John Minge built the first house in 1819 as a modest single-pile, center-passage dwelling. In 1855 Thomas H. Wilcox doubled its width and remodeled it with Greek Revival detailing, including chimney pieces, corner blocks, a cornice, entrance porches and sliding doors that resemble designs in Asher Benjamin's pattern books. The nomination calls it the best preserved and purest expression of academic Greek Revival style in the county. During the Civil War, General Sheridan used the house as a headquarters while his troops crossed the James River on a pontoon bridge at Weyanoke. The Copland family bought the property in the early twentieth century, added a two-story kitchen wing in 1922, and later restored the house to its early twentieth-century appearance. The barn is regarded as one of the best preserved mid-nineteenth-century barns north of the James.","period_of_significance":"1819-1922","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored to its early twentieth-century appearance by 1984; the house and farm remain in use, with about 250 acres still farmed around the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.960374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6800/41680006/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001107.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680006","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Bend_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7054144"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charles-city-county/north-bend-89001107/"}