{"nrhp_refnum":"03001086","name":"Sunnyside","other_names":["Vdhr # 104-0006","Duke House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2150 Barracks Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.05592085600006,"lon":-78.50371522199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-10-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sunnyside, also called the Duke House, is a Gothic Revival house at 2150 Barracks Road on the edge of Charlottesville, Virginia. It began as a two-room log farmhouse built in 1800 and was enlarged in 1858 and 1894.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an appealing and unusually successful example of Gothic Revival (cottage orne) architecture, which is rare in Virginia. Its asymmetry results from a true evolution from a small log house, and its 1858 remodeling was modeled on Washington Irving's Sunnyside in Tarrytown, New York. Its wooded setting survives amid urban sprawl.","narrative":"Sunnyside is a Gothic Revival house on about two wooded acres at the edge of Charlottesville, Virginia. It began in 1800 as a two-room, one-and-one-half-story log farmhouse built by John Alphin on a 590-acre tract. In 1857 Ira Garrett covered the logs with weatherboards and added a wing and porch. In 1858 William Carroll remodeled the house after Washington Irving's Gothic Revival home of the same name in Tarrytown, New York, adding scroll-sawn verge boards, pointed-arch windows and doors, arched shutters, and a chimney with octagonal pots. The Duke family owned it from 1863 to 1963 and added a frame wing in 1894. The University of Virginia acquired it in 1963 and uses it as faculty and administrative housing. It was listed for its architecture, as a rare and convincing Virginia example of the cottage orne that grew gradually from a small log dwelling.","period_of_significance":"1800-1953","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used by the University of Virginia as faculty and administrative housing; a non-contributing modern garage is on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.353932-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/6800/41680083/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03001086.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001086/25aa4b9694-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001086/25aa4b9694-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunnyside_in_Charlottesville,_through_trees.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunnyside_in_Charlottesville,_through_trees.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680083","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyside_(Charlottesville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900925"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/sunnyside-03001086/"}