{"nrhp_refnum":"71001062","name":"Maymont","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Hampton St. (Spottswood Rd.)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.534940140500055,"lon":-77.47830492730309,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Maymont is a 100-acre estate in Richmond, Virginia, with a three-story sandstone mansion designed in 1890 by Edgerton S. Rogers, plus a stable, carriage house, manager's cottage, tomb and extensive gardens beside the James River.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the mansion's eclectic mix of chateau, Romanesque and medieval features as architecturally significant. It also values the Italian and Japanese gardens and the art and sculpture collected by Major James H. Dooley and Sallie May Dooley. The estate was willed to the city for public use and reflects the tastes of a nineteenth-century industrial millionaire.","narrative":"Maymont is a 100-acre estate on the James River in Richmond, built around a three-story mansion of broken-course sandstone designed in 1890 by Edgerton S. Rogers for Major James H. Dooley and his wife, Sallie May, for whom it was named. The house blends chateau-style gables and chimneys with Romanesque towers, bowed sections and a corbeled medieval tower. Inside are French-style rooms, European paintings, sculpture and the well-known Swan bedroom. The grounds include a stable, a carriage house, a manager's cottage with an octagonal tower, a Greek temple-style tomb, an Italian parterre garden with a cascade, and a Japanese garden with a pagoda. The Dooleys collected plants and art during European travels. After their deaths in 1922 and 1925 the estate passed to the city for public use. It is valued for its architecture, landscape, sculpture and art, and as a green space in the city center.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (house built 1890)","architect_builder":"Edgerton S. Rogers (architect); built for Major James H. Dooley","architectural_style":"Eclectic, combining chateau, Romanesque and medieval elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Open to the public as a city park and museum; interior restoration was under way at the time of nomination, and a later note records the property as restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.172648-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/6829/41682919/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/71001062.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71001062/ad9d4fe275-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71001062/ad9d4fe275-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Packer1028","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maymont_Park,_2024.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Packer1028</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maymont_Park,_2024.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"71000982","name":"James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/james-river-and-kanawha-canal-historic-district-71000982/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682919","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maymont","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6797360"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/maymont-71001062/"}