{"nrhp_refnum":"89001911","name":"Belle-Hampton","other_names":["Hayfield","77-3"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 627, 0.3 mi. N of VA 617","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dublin","county":"Pulaski County","state":"VA","lat":37.17913846050004,"lon":-80.66188403812714,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Belle-Hampton is a 253-acre farm and coal-mining complex near Dublin in Pulaski County, Virginia. It centers on a brick house built about 1826 and enlarged about 1879, with outbuildings, farm structures and a coal-mining commissary building.","why_significant":"The property is argued to be significant for its link to a private coal-mining operation (Criterion A) and as the home, farm and industrial base of James Hoge Tyler, Governor of Virginia from 1898 to 1902 (Criterion B). It is also cited as an unusually well-preserved and complete antebellum farm in Southwest Virginia, whose house additions show how a family changed its living environment over time (Criterion C).","narrative":"Belle-Hampton is a farm and industrial complex in northern Pulaski County, Virginia, set on a terrace below Cloyd's Mountain and overlooking bottomland along Back Creek. The brick main house was built about 1826 by General James Hoge to replace his father's log dwelling, then enlarged around 1879 by his grandson James Hoge Tyler with a large Italianate addition that covered the original front. Around the house stand a brick kitchen and slave house, a meathouse, a possible blacksmith shop, a bank barn, a granary and a 1931 swimming pool and tennis court. Tyler, an industrialist and agricultural promoter, later served as governor of Virginia from 1898 to 1902. He also ran a coal mine on the property, and a large brick building that may have served as a store and post office survives from that venture. The nomination values the complex for its integrity, its mining history, its Tyler connection and its well-preserved antebellum farm.","period_of_significance":"1826-1939","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Farm still used for cattle grazing; the original house serves as an unheated summer house and the brick outbuilding as a second home. The form's current functions also list vacant/not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.661656-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/6827/41682765/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001911.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001911/d295f0edd6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001911/d295f0edd6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belle-Hampton,_distant_from_south.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belle-Hampton,_distant_from_south.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682765","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%E2%80%93Hampton","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15198268"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/pulaski-county/belle-hampton-89001911/"}