{"nrhp_refnum":"02001000","name":"Marlbrook","other_names":["Cherry Hill","081-0009"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4973 Forge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glasgow","county":"Rockbridge County","state":"VA","lat":37.65231788350005,"lon":-79.49541279693048,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-09-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Marlbrook, originally called Cherry Hill, is a two-story, five-bay brick Georgian farmhouse with attached wings on a 123-acre farm along Forge Road (SR 608) about three miles east of Natural Bridge, near Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The main block dates to the late 1700s, with a kitchen wing dated 1804.","why_significant":"The nomination points to the house's Georgian architecture and detailing, built in the late eighteenth century for David Greenlee. It also stresses the property's long record as a working farm and its association with the Greenlee, Thompson and Tompkins families. The surviving outbuildings, including a log springhouse, a cistern, a barn and tenant buildings, add to its agricultural history. The criteria marked on the form are not legible in the text provided.","narrative":"Marlbrook, first known as Cherry Hill, is a brick farmhouse near Glasgow in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on the old Lexington to Lynchburg Turnpike. The two-story, five-bay main block has Flemish-bond brickwork, a limestone foundation quarried on the property, classical cornices and a center-passage plan with detailed mantels and walnut partitions. A one-and-a-half-story kitchen wing carries bricks inscribed with the date 1804, and a 1990s frame wing was added on the west. The house was built in the late eighteenth century for David Greenlee, whose mother Mary Greenlee was an early settler of the area. Later owners included William Thompson, who farmed here and ran a mill, and the Tompkins family, who renamed the place Marlbrook in the 1870s. A log springhouse, a brick cistern, a twentieth-century barn and 1940s tenant buildings remain on 123 acres of pasture, hayfield and woodland, recording the property's long use as a working farm.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling with farm outbuildings; the form lists current functions of domestic and agriculture.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.734293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/6833/41683390/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02001000.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001000/41be955110-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001000/41be955110-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marlbrook_near_Glasgow.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marlbrook_near_Glasgow.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683390","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlbrook_(house)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15248417"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/rockbridge-county/marlbrook-02001000/"}