{"nrhp_refnum":"93000005","name":"Mount Stirling","other_names":["VDHR File No. 18-15"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 155 E side, 3200 ft. NNE of jct. with VA 614","address_restricted":false,"city":"Providence Forge","county":"Charles City County","state":"VA","lat":37.42479649850006,"lon":-77.03698625796142,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-02-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Stirling is a two-and-a-half-story red brick Greek Revival plantation house on a hilltop above the Chickahominy River near Providence Forge, Charles City County, Virginia, begun in 1851 for planter William Jerdone.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an outstanding, well-preserved example of Greek Revival architecture in an eastern Virginia plantation house, built when few major plantation residences were going up in the county. Its original hardware, mantels and woodwork survive with little alteration. Federal soldiers also occupied the house in 1862 and 1864 during the Civil War.","narrative":"Mount Stirling is a red brick plantation house of two and a half stories on a raised basement, set on a broad hill above pasture and woodland along the Chickahominy River in Charles City County. Construction began in 1851 for William Jerdone, one of the county's wealthiest planters, on a tract of more than 2,000 acres. It replaced an eighteenth-century dwelling. Greek Revival features include a small Ionic portico, stepped gable parapets and a central-passage, double-pile plan. Inside, original mantels, plasterwork, heart pine floors, locks and hinges survive. A Federal-style balustrade lightens the roofline. An altered frame kitchen from the earlier plantation complex is the only remaining dependency, and the ruins of a probable slave house lie to the east. Federal soldiers occupied the house in 1862 and 1864. The house was listed because it is a remarkably intact example of its style, among the last great plantation residences built in the county before the Civil War.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling; the house retains a high degree of integrity, with a 1940s rear porch and mid-twentieth-century second-floor alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.547446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/6800/41680008/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93000005.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000005/b42c5ee1d8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000005/b42c5ee1d8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MOUNT_STIRLING,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MOUNT_STIRLING,_CHARLES_CITY_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680008","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Stirling_(Providence_Forge,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712914"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charles-city-county/mount-stirling-93000005/"}