{"nrhp_refnum":"90002161","name":"Mountain Glen","other_names":["Repass--Hudson House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 mi. SE of Ceres","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ceres","county":"Bland County","state":"VA","lat":37.003856727000056,"lon":-81.33011962118903,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mountain Glen, also known as the Repass-Hudson House, is a farm with a large two-story frame double-pile center-passage house and associated outbuildings, on the lower slopes of Walker Mountain about one mile southeast of Ceres, Bland County, Virginia. The house was built in the mid- to late 1850s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusual and well-preserved example in Bland County of a large frame house of the double-pile center-passage form, with Greek Revival interior detailing. It has been continuously occupied by members of the Repass and Hudson families, and the farm retains nineteenth and twentieth century outbuildings.","narrative":"Mountain Glen is a farm set in a hollow on the lower northwest slopes of Walker Mountain, about a mile southeast of Ceres in Bland County, Virginia. Its centerpiece is a large two-story frame house of double-pile center-passage plan, built in the mid- to late 1850s for John Repass, a Reformed Church minister, reportedly by a Tennessee craftsman named John Lock. The weatherboarded house rests on a brick foundation under a hipped standing-seam metal roof, and its interior keeps simple Greek Revival mantels, tall baseboards and early four-panel doors. A porch was added around 1910. Outbuildings include a smokehouse, a potter's shed, a stone springhouse, a woodshed, a hen house and a barn rebuilt after a 1908 fire. The property was listed for its architecture, as an unusual and well-preserved house of this form in the county. Members of the Repass and Hudson families have lived there continuously, and the farm is still worked much as earlier generations did.","period_of_significance":"1850-1940","architect_builder":"John Lock (builder)","architectural_style":"Other: center-passage plan (Greek Revival interior detailing)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Continuously occupied by the Repass and Hudson families; the form lists current functions as single dwelling and agricultural use, with the barn and outbuildings still used for curing hams and raising cattle.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.690069-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/6797/41679790/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002161.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002161/3ae023e7fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002161/3ae023e7fc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_Glen_farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountain_Glen_farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679790","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Glen","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712919"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bland-county/mountain-glen-90002161/"}