{"nrhp_refnum":"03001089","name":"Green Spring","other_names":["VDHR File No. 029-0025"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4601 Green Spring Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.82378121100004,"lon":-77.15673604804846,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-10-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Green Spring is a roughly 9.5-acre designed landscape with a brick house, spring house and garden at 4601 Green Spring Road near Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia. The brick house dates to about 1777, and the landscape and buildings were redesigned in 1942.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C in landscape architecture and architecture. The 1942 Colonial Revival redesign is the only known collaboration between landscape architect Beatrix Farrand and architect Walter Macomber, and it was Farrand's only Virginia garden. The late-18th-century brick house is also described as one of the few surviving rural houses of its period in Fairfax County.","narrative":"Green Spring is a historic designed landscape of about 9.5 acres in Fairfax County, Virginia, now part of a public park. Its centerpiece is a brick house probably built soon after John Moss bought the property in 1777, along with a stone spring house, formal and informal gardens, and archaeological remains of an eighteenth-century outbuilding. In 1942 the owners, Belinda and Michael Straight, hired landscape architect Beatrix Farrand and architect Walter Macomber. Farrand laid out a semicircular boxwood-edged garden with granite retaining walls and stone steps leading to garden rooms above a ravine. Macomber added wings to the house and redesigned the interiors in the Colonial Revival style, using woodwork salvaged from a Maryland tavern. The property was listed because it preserves the only known collaboration between these two figures, and Farrand's only Virginia garden. Much of the 1942 plan, including view lines and original plantings, survives under county park management.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1777; 1942","architect_builder":"Farrand, Beatrix (landscape architect); Macomber, Walter (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Part of Green Spring Gardens park owned by the Fairfax County Park Authority; the brick house hosts small public programs on the first floor and staff offices on the second floor, and the grounds serve as a public garden.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.868807-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/6805/41680547/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03001089.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001089/8d7e4b0e09-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001089/8d7e4b0e09-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Green_Spring_in_Annandale,_Virginia_-_1.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Green_Spring_in_Annandale,_Virginia_-_1.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680547","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Spring_Gardens_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603225"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/green-spring-03001089/"}