Belleview (Ridgeway, Virginia)

Belleview

Belleview Historic Marker, April 2010
Location S of VA 641, Ridgeway, Virginia
Coordinates 36°36′23″N 79°53′16″W / 36.60639°N 79.88778°W / 36.60639; -79.88778Coordinates: 36°36′23″N 79°53′16″W / 36.60639°N 79.88778°W / 36.60639; -79.88778
Area 40 acres (16 ha)
Built 1783 (1783)
NRHP Reference # 74002129[1]
VLR # 044-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHP June 10, 1974
Designated VLR May 21, 1974[2]

Belleview is a historic plantation house located near Ridgeway, Henry County, Virginia. It was built about 1783, and is a two-story, five bay, frame dwelling with a gable roof. It has an original two-story ell and a sun porch and one-story wing added in the mid-1950s. The front facade features a two-tier portico supported by slender Greek Ionic order columns.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

Last reunion of the descendants of Major John Redd, June 1931, Belleview Plantation, Henry County, Virginia

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission staff (April 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Belleview" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo


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