Bethel Green, also known as the James Bumgardner House, is a historic home located near Greenville,

Augusta County, Virginia Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county ...

. The farmhouse was built in 1857, and is a two-story, square brick dwelling with a double-pile, central passage plan, and two-story, rear service ell. It features a one-story 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 ...

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 ...

with fancy scrolled lattice, rear porches with Gothic railings, and bracketed cornices. Also on the property are a contributing

bank barn A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill, or bank, both the upper and the lower floors area could be accessed from ground level, one are ...

, granary, and shed. an
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/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Houses completed in 1857 Houses in Augusta County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Augusta County, Virginia 1857 establishments in Virginia {{AugustaCountyVA-NRHP-stub