{"nrhp_refnum":"69000231","name":"Annefield","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of jct. of Rtes. 633 and 652","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boyce","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.13171603050006,"lon":-78.02437781465207,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Annefield is a two-story stone mansion near Berryville (Boyce area), Clarke County, Virginia, built around 1790 by Mathew Page on a hilltop in the lower Shenandoah Valley.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Annefield as a well-proportioned house that combines a basic eighteenth-century design with refinements of the Federal period. Its low roofline, Adamesque features in the north east room and narrow window muntins point to a circa 1790 date. It is also tied to the Page and Carter families and to the birthplace of Mary Custis, wife of Robert E. Lee.","narrative":"Annefield is a two-story stone mansion in Clarke County, Virginia, built around 1790 by Mathew Page, who came from Hanover County and planned both the house and its gardens. The house is seven bays wide with a hipped roof, modillioned cornice, and a two-level pedimented porch carried on Roman Ionic columns. Inside, a wide stair hall divides the rooms, and the north east room has Adamesque pilasters framing its doors and mantel. Some carving is said to be the work of Hessian soldiers. The property later passed to Thomas Carter, whose son William Page Carter became a poet writing mostly about the Civil War. Mary Custis, later wife of Robert E. Lee, was born here in 1808. The house blends an older eighteenth-century plan with Federal refinements, and sits on a broad hilltop with commanding views over the lower Shenandoah Valley.","period_of_significance":"18th Century; circa 1790","architect_builder":"Mathew Page (builder/planner)","architectural_style":"Eighteenth-century design with Federal period refinements; Adamesque interior details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, unaltered, on its original site, and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.12568-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/6802/41680238/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000231.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000231/cb564a5fed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000231/cb564a5fed-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annefield,_State_Route_633_vicinity,_Boyce_vicinity_(Clarke,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annefield,_State_Route_633_vicinity,_Boyce_vicinity_(Clarke,_Virginia).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/41680238","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annefield_(Boyce,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711969"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/annefield-69000231/"}