{"nrhp_refnum":"72001388","name":"Tuleyries, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1.5 mi. E of White Post off VA 628","address_restricted":false,"city":"White Post","county":"Clarke County","state":"VA","lat":39.07138801950006,"lon":-78.07366621535589,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An extensive estate near White Post in Clarke County, Virginia, formed around 1833 by Colonel Joseph Tuley, Jr. It includes a Late-Federal brick mansion, early farm buildings, formal gardens, a park, pastures and woodlands.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest and best preserved ante-bellum estates in Virginia. It is noted for its architecturally important residence, its architecturally treated brick farm buildings, and its landscaped grounds with old cedars and boxwood. Its history is documented through 19th- and early 20th-century accounts and a restoration in the early 1900s.","narrative":"Near White Post in the lower Shenandoah Valley, The Tuleyries is an estate of about 347 acres formed around 1833 by Colonel Joseph Tuley, Jr. The principal building is a large Late-Federal mansion of white painted brick, with a tetrastyle pedimented portico of tall Corinthian columns, an octagonal cupola and a coffered entrance-hall dome. Around it lie an informal park, an avenue of old cedars, a formal garden with boxwood, and a triple-arch gateway with a porter's lodge. Northwest of the house are early brick farm buildings, including a forge, smokehouse, ice-house, carriage house, stable and barns. Tuley's name for the estate played on his own name and the French royal palace of the Tuileries. The Civil War damaged the property, and it was sold in 1866. Graham F. Blandy bought it in 1903 and restored it. After his death in 1926, over half the land went to the University of Virginia as an agricultural experimental station. The remaining estate is still a working farm.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late-Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition and unaltered; still operated as a working farm and used as a private summer residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.802021-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/6801/41680184/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/72001388.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001388/e895914d08-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001388/e895914d08-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TULEYRIES.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TULEYRIES.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93001133","name":"Greenway Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/greenway-historic-district-93001133/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680184","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuleyries","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7770699"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/clarke-county/tuleyries-the-72001388/"}