{"nrhp_refnum":"91000020","name":"Rose Bower","other_names":["DHR File No. 26-90"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 665 S of jct. with VA 40","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoney Creek","county":"Dinwiddie County","state":"VA","lat":36.936270907500074,"lon":-77.54022854952821,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rose Bower is a 231-acre farm complex on Virginia Route 665 near Stoney Creek in rural Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It includes a circa 1818 kitchen dependency, a main house built in 1826 by Thomas Rose, outbuildings, agricultural buildings, a family cemetery and a country store.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Rose Bower is locally significant under Criterion A as a farm worked continuously by the Rose family since the early nineteenth century, still growing many of the same crops. Under Criterion C, it argues that the house combines Colonial and Federal period features and shows skilled regional craftsmanship with a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Rose Bower is a farm in rural Dinwiddie County, Virginia, that has been worked by one family since about 1818. The complex includes a small braced-frame kitchen dependency that was the first dwelling, a two-story frame hall-parlor house of 1826 built by Thomas Rose, a smokehouse, a well cover, a stable, a corncrib, an early twentieth-century barn and a roadside country store across the road. A family cemetery lies behind the house. The house mixes Federal features, such as tall chimneys and a low gabled roof, with Colonial ones, including its hall-parlor plan and paneled wainscot. Inside, the grained and marbleized wainscot is a notable feature. The surrounding fields and woods remain largely unchanged, though the farm has shrunk from its earlier acreage. The property was recognized as a locally significant example of an early nineteenth-century plantation, for its continuous agricultural use and for its well-preserved, sophisticated vernacular architecture.","period_of_significance":"1818-1940","architect_builder":"Thomas Rose (builder); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm is still cultivated by the Rose family (tobacco, corn, soybeans and peanuts). The house is described as in pristine, largely unaltered condition, and the barn and tobacco-processing house are used for equipment storage. The stable is in partial ruin.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:01.161387-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/6803/41680398/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91000020.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000020/502cd33079-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000020/502cd33079-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rose_Bower_from_the_north.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rose_Bower_from_the_north.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680398","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bower","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713154"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/dinwiddie-county/rose-bower-91000020/"}