{"nrhp_refnum":"08000911","name":"Clifton","other_names":["Crigler's Place, VDHR File No. 023-5230"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"7091 Monumental Mills Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rixeyville","county":"Culpeper County","state":"VA","lat":38.61454931350005,"lon":-78.00248837854986,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clifton is a mid-nineteenth-century farmstead district at 7091 Monumental Mills Road near Rixeyville in northwestern Culpeper County, Virginia. It centers on a circa 1845 Greek Revival frame house with a large collection of outbuildings and two cemeteries.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Clifton as an evolved farmstead that keeps one of the region's largest collections of outbuildings, with ten contributing nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century buildings. The house shows phases of growth from about 1845 through about 1910, including Greek Revival and Craftsman work. The property is tied to the Crigler family, and it includes a family cemetery and a slave cemetery.","narrative":"Clifton is a farmstead in northwestern Culpeper County, Virginia, near Rixeyville, whose buildings record more than a century of change. The main house was built around 1845 as a two-story Greek Revival dwelling with a side-passage plan. A west wing added around 1850 made it a central-passage house. Around 1910 a porch, a rear ell and a kitchen wing were added, bringing Craftsman details to the interior. Around the house stand ten contributing outbuildings in three groupings, including an antebellum two-story kitchen with a wide stone chimney, a late-nineteenth-century bank barn, an ash house, an icehouse, a springhouse and a corncrib. Five contributing sites include the locations of former buildings and two cemeteries. One is a family cemetery begun by George Roberts Crigler, and the other is a slave cemetery above the Thornton River. The property was listed because it keeps an unusually large group of farm buildings and shows how a local family's farm evolved over time.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th century Greek Revival; Late 19th and early 20th century American Movements: Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions are listed as single dwelling, vacant/not in use, and cemetery. Recent rehabilitation has added a rear wing extension and a one-story addition to the house.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.956445-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/6802/41680295/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000911.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000911/ca45bf88df-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000911/ca45bf88df-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifton_on_Monumental_Mills_Road.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifton_on_Monumental_Mills_Road.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680295","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_(Rixeyville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14691905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/culpeper-county/clifton-08000911/"}