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Belmont (Capron, Virginia)

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Belmont is a historic plantation house near Capron in Southampton County, Virginia, built around 1790. The one and a half story frame house has weatherboard siding, a side gable roof with dormers, a brick foundation, and a central hall plan with Chinese lattice railings on its second story porch. The 145 acre property includes a contributing smokehouse and office building. Belmont is historically significant as the site where Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion was effectively suppressed on August 23 of that year. The property was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Plantation House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Southampton County, United States 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1790 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
House 1
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Plantation 1
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Belmont (Capron, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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  • infobox field: built=c. 1790
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Belmont is a historic plantation house near Capron in Southampton County, Virginia, built around 1790. The one and a half story frame house has weatherboard siding, a side gable roof with dormers, a brick foundation, and a central hall plan with Chinese lattice railings on its second story porch. The 145 acre property includes a contributing smokehouse and office building. Belmont is historically significant as the site where Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion was effectively suppressed on August 23 of that year. The property was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation house)
    Belmont is a historic plantation house where Nat Turner's Rebellion took place. Located near Capron, Southampton County, Virginia, it was built about 1790 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, frame dwelling sheathed in weatherboard. It has a side gable roof with dormers and sits on a brick foundation. It has a single pile, central-hall plan and features a Chinese lattice railing on the second story. Also on t
  • Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia article
    It is a -story, frame dwelling sheathed in weatherboard.
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2. Belmont (Capron, Virginia) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Southampton County, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Southampton County, United States
Wikidata item Q15198302, property P131/P17 (location): Southampton County, United States
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