Berry Hill (Berry Hill, Virginia)
Berry Hill Manor | |
 Berry Hill, Carnegie Survey of the South, 1930s | |
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| Location | SW of Berry Hill, near Danville, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 36°32′44″N 79°37′11″W / 36.54556°N 79.61972°W |
| Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
| Built | c. 1910 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Shingle Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 80004210[1] |
| VLR No. | 071-0006 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 6, 1980 |
| Designated VLR | February 15, 1977[2] |
Berry Hill is or was a historic home and farm complex located near Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] However, it is no longer listed on the website for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources[4] and may have been delisted in connection with industrial development plans by Mega Site.[5]
History[edit]
Virginia patriot, planter and politician Peter Perkins built the house for his bride, Agnes Wilson, daughter of surveyor and militia captain Peter Wilson who surveyed for a road between the homestead of pioneer William Bean (who later moved to Tennessee) to the mouth of Sandy River. The Perkins lived at Berry Hill and operated a ferry as well as a plantation.[6] After the conflict he sold Berry Hill to Major Peter Wilson (who would lead troops in the War of 1812).[7] The main house was built in several sections during the 19th and early 20th centuries, taking its present form about 1910.
Architecture[edit]
The property consists of a house and about twenty outbuildings. The oldest section of the main house is a two-story, three-bay structure connected by a hyphen to a 1+1⁄2-story wing set perpendicular to the main block. Connected by a hyphen is a one-story, single-cell wing probably built in the 1840s. Enveloping the front wall and the hyphen of the original house is a large, two-story structure built about 1910 with a shallow gambrel roof with bell-cast eaves. Located on the property are a large assemblage of contributing outbuildings including the former kitchen/laundry, the "lumber shed," the smokehouse, the dairy, a small gable-roofed log cabin, a chicken house, a log slave house, log corn crib, and a log stable.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ "Berry Hill, VA State Register, home of Peter Perkins". The Danville Register. 1977-03-24. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/?s=berry+hill
- ^ https://sovamegasite.org/
- ^ Maud Carter Clement, "The Perkins Hospitals, 1781" in 'Writings of Maud Carter Clement' (Pittsylvania Historical Society 1982) pp. thirty-eight, forty-one.
- ^ Maud Carter Clement, History of Pittsylvania County (1929) p. 213n5
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Berry Hill" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
External links[edit]
- Berry Hill, Danville vic., Pittsylvania County, Virginia: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress).
