{"nrhp_refnum":"96001453","name":"Mountain View Farm","other_names":["Mountain View Farm at Rebec Vineyards"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Co. Rt. 3 and US 29","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clifford","county":"Amherst County","state":"VA","lat":37.64294110550006,"lon":-78.98593149560577,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-09-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead near Clifford in Amherst County, Virginia, made up of an 18th-century I-house built by Colonel Hugh Rose, a 19th-century doctor's office cottage, and five other outbuildings. The house was moved to its present site in 1831.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is one of a handful of surviving antebellum farmsteads in Amherst County, with a largely unaltered set of outbuildings including a rare surviving 19th-century doctor's office. It is also tied to the Cabell family, prominent in Piedmont political and medical life, and to Dr. Paul Carrington Cabell, who built the outbuildings.","narrative":"Mountain View Farm, near Clifford in Amherst County, Virginia, is a farmstead of seven historic buildings centered on a timber-frame I-house with a rear ell. Colonel Hugh Rose built the house in the late 1700s. In 1831 William F. Spencer moved it from Spencer's Mountain to its present location to be closer to a new stagecoach road linking Philadelphia and the Carolinas. Dr. Paul Carrington Cabell, a physician from the prominent Cabell family, acquired the property in the 1830s, renamed it Mountain View, and added the supporting buildings. These include a one-room doctor's office, a well house, a smokehouse, a log ice house and carriage house, and two chicken coops. Later owners included the philanthropist Samuel Miller, who planned to grow medicinal horehound there. The farm is valued for its architecture and for the remarkable survival of its largely unaltered outbuildings, especially the rare doctor's office.","period_of_significance":"1831-1859","architect_builder":"Colonel Hugh Rose (mansion); Paul Carrington Cabell (cottage)","architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Outbuildings are described as in good condition and largely unaltered; the property is still used as a single dwelling with secondary structures.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.497634-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/6795/41679517/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/96001453.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001453/e6d1103be9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001453/e6d1103be9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rebec_Vineyards_farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rebec_Vineyards_farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679517","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View_Farm_(Clifford,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/amherst-county/mountain-view-farm-96001453/"}