{"nrhp_refnum":"04000846","name":"Chapel Hill","other_names":["Chapel Hill Farm","21-14"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 Chapel Hill Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berryville","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.11180868100007,"lon":-78.02100454505543,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill Farm) is a 477-acre working farm south of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia, centered on a long limestone dwelling begun in the mid-1820s by Dr. Charles Carter Byrd and enlarged in 1938-1941.","why_significant":"The house is considered one of the county's best examples of a mid-19th-century Federal-style plantation house remodeled in the early 1940s in the Colonial Revival style. It is also tied to Gen. William J. Donovan, a World War I Medal of Honor recipient and head of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, who bought the farm in 1938 and hired architect George L. Howe to remodel it.","narrative":"Chapel Hill Farm lies about three miles south of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia, near Old Chapel. Its main building is a long limestone house made up of several parts. Dr. Charles Carter Byrd built the central two-part block and a small southern building in the mid-1820s in a vernacular Federal style. In 1938 Gen. William J. Donovan, a Medal of Honor recipient from World War I and later head of the Office of Strategic Services, bought the property. He hired Washington architect George L. Howe to restore the old quarters, remodel the main house and add one-and-a-half-story wings in the Colonial Revival style. Work on the wings ran from 1940 to 1941. The new stonework, slate roofs and detailing were matched to the original so closely that the house appears to date from a single period. The farm also keeps several agricultural outbuildings, pastures and an unchanged rural setting, and the house underwent a certified rehabilitation after 1999.","period_of_significance":"1824-1954","architect_builder":"George L. Howe - architect (1938-1941 alterations and additions)","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house is in use as a single dwelling on a working farm, and a certified rehabilitation was completed by the current owner after 1999.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.503195-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/6802/41680228/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000846.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000846/0032c32e6c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000846/0032c32e6c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHAPEL_HILL,_BERRYVILLE,_CLARKE_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHAPEL_HILL,_BERRYVILLE,_CLARKE_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000010","name":"Chapel Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/chapel-rural-historic-district-14000010/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_Hill_(Berryville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/chapel-hill-04000846/"}