Belleview (Ridgeway, Virginia)
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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 A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...
supported by slender Greek
Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...
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/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.


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Plantation houses in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1783 Houses in Henry County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Henry County, Virginia {{HenryCountyVA-NRHP-stub