{"nrhp_refnum":"70000782","name":"Farmington","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of jct. of U.S. 250 and U.S. 29","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.06222247850005,"lon":-78.54190902473047,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Farmington is a brick house with a Jefferson-designed octagonal addition near Charlottesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The original farmhouse dates to before about 1780, and the addition was designed around 1802-1807; the building now serves as a country club clubhouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the octagonal front addition, designed by Thomas Jefferson for George Divers, is an important surviving example of Jefferson's architectural work. It reflects his experiments combining the octagon with the rectangle. The earlier brick farmhouse built by Francis Jerdone forms the core of the present building.","narrative":"Farmington, near Charlottesville, began as a simple two-story brick farmhouse with a stone basement, built by Francis Jerdone, who acquired the land in 1758. The house is thought to predate 1780. In 1802 its later owner, George Divers, asked his friend Thomas Jefferson to design an addition. The result was a large octagonal section on the east end, fronted by a two-story Tuscan portico with a pediment. Jefferson's drawings survive, and a visitor in 1818 described the original interior. The addition was altered in 1852-54 with an inserted floor, and again after 1927, when the property became a country club and was enlarged with a dining room, ballroom and guest rooms. A tornado in the late 1950s damaged the service wing, which was largely rebuilt. The nomination values the house chiefly as a surviving example of Jefferson's work and notes that open grounds preserve its rural setting.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Thomas Jefferson (designer of the octagonal addition); Francis Jerdone (built the original farmhouse)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as the Farmington Country Club clubhouse; condition listed as good, with the building altered by later additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.848894-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/6792/41679299/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000782.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000782/48113f96b6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000782/48113f96b6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington,_U.S._Route_250_vicinity,_Charlottesville_vicinity_(Albemarle_County,_Virginia).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington,_U.S._Route_250_vicinity,_Charlottesville_vicinity_(Albemarle_County,_Virginia).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679299","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_(Albemarle_County,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5435871"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/farmington-70000782/"}