{"nrhp_refnum":"94000988","name":"Smithfield","other_names":["VDHR File No. 83-12"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"VA 19 NW side, 3 mi. SW of Rosedale","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rosedale","county":"Russell County","state":"VA","lat":36.955727596500054,"lon":-81.98293218337366,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Smithfield is a 980-acre farm district near Rosedale in Russell County, Virginia, centered on a late-1850s brick central-passage-plan house with farm and domestic outbuildings dating from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be one of Russell County's most important examples of mid-19th-century Greek Revival domestic architecture, adapted over time. The farm as a whole is significant in agriculture for retaining 19th-century field patterns and field names through continuous family ownership since the Revolutionary War era, along with barns and outbuildings showing post-Civil War adaptation.","narrative":"Smithfield is a 980-acre farm in the Elk Garden Creek bottom southwest of Rosedale, Russell County, Virginia, rising from the highway to the ridge of River Mountain. Its centerpiece is a two-story, five-bay Flemish-bond brick house built in the late 1850s, with a central passage, four rooms on each floor, and Greek Revival mantels and trim inspired by Asher Benjamin's pattern books. Around it stand a brick springhouse, an acetylene house, a meat house, and a former Rosedale schoolhouse moved to the farm, along with horse, sheep and cow barns, a shop, and a wagon shed. The property was settled by Colonel Henry Smith, and ownership stayed in the family for generations. That continuity preserved nineteenth-century field patterns and names. The farm is recognized for its agricultural history and for a house that shows how regional domestic forms changed from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.","period_of_significance":"1848-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; central-passage-plan","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as domestic and agricultural, with a vacant/not in use category also entered; barns range from good to poor condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.346922-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/6835/41683527/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/94000988.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000988/ddb54d3355-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000988/ddb54d3355-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithfield_farmhouse_on_a_rainy_day.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithfield_farmhouse_on_a_rainy_day.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683527","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_(Rosedale,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15278246"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/russell-county/smithfield-94000988/"}