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Ingleside sits outside of the Henry County town of Ridgeway, six miles from the North Carolina line. The two-story, three-bay, center-passage-plan frame house stands on a prominence between Mica Road, historically the main road out of Martinsville, and Marrowbone Creek, a tributary of the Smith River. The circa 1880 house presents a distinctive character of its hybrid Greek Revival-Gothic Revival styling and its spirited, decorative interior painting. Believed to have been built for the Penn family, Ingleside was acquired by the Sheffields in 1886 and served as a residence for their descendants.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
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DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
