{"nrhp_refnum":"92001387","name":"Rothsay","other_names":["VDHR File No. 09-65"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 221 N side, 2000 ft. E of jct. with VA 811","address_restricted":false,"city":"Forest","county":"Bedford (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.36669391350006,"lon":-79.28581871311117,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rothsay is a two-story brick and wood-shingled country house with landscaped grounds and farm outbuildings on US 221 near Forest, Bedford County, Virginia. The house was built in 1914 and enlarged in 1918.","why_significant":"The house is considered one of the largest and most refined early-twentieth-century country houses in Bedford County, blending Georgian Revival and Craftsman styles. It and its grounds are also the work of several design professionals of local and national reputation, including landscape architect George E. Burnap and architect Stanhope Johnson. It is locally significant under Criterion C in Architecture.","narrative":"Rothsay is a two-story country house in the farmland of northeastern Bedford County, Virginia, with views toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. Octavius Loxley Clark Radford built it in 1914 after a chimney fire destroyed the earlier family house on the site, reusing bricks salvaged from that building. The first story is brick and the second is sheathed in wood shingles, under a slate hip roof, and a rear addition followed in 1918. Georgian Revival porches and Craftsman details, such as the dining room's cherry wainscot, combine in a plain, rectangular design. The Lynchburg firm of Heard and Cardwell is credited with the design. The grounds include a brick garden terrace and dovecote designed by Washington landscape architect George E. Burnap in 1918, and brick gate posts designed by Stanhope Johnson in 1934. The property was listed for its architecture, with a period of significance from 1914 to 1934, and it remains part of a working farm once ranked among the county's largest.","period_of_significance":"1914-1934","architect_builder":"Heard & Cardwell (house); Burnap, George E. (garden)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house was remodeled in 1989-90 with the historic exterior and interior preserved; the property is still a working farm and single dwelling. A mid- to late 19th-century log tenant house on the site is in poor repair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.761242-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6797/41679734/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92001387.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001387/e4f37aed77-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001387/e4f37aed77-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothesay_at_Forest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothesay_at_Forest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679734","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothsay_(Forest,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713162"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/bedford/rothsay-92001387/"}