{"nrhp_refnum":"72001404","name":"Welbourne","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of jct. of VA 743 and 6111","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middleburg","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":38.999774369500045,"lon":-77.81140246431772,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-02-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Welbourne is a country house and farm complex near Middleburg in Loudoun County, Virginia. Its oldest part, a stone farmhouse, dates to about 1770, and later generations enlarged it into a stuccoed mansion.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Welbourne as a late-eighteenth-century stone farmhouse that evolved into an imposing mansion evoking mid-nineteenth-century Virginia plantation life. Numerous outbuildings attest to the extensive farming operation. It was associated with the Dulany family and their descendants for over 150 years, and Richard Henry Dulany founded the Upperville Colt and Horse Show here in 1853.","narrative":"Welbourne, near Middleburg in Loudoun County, began around 1770 as a two-and-one-half story stone farmhouse of local rubble. About 1820, John Peyton Dulany bought the property and added a stuccoed brick front section of five bays. In the 1830s one-story octagonal-ended wings with Greek Revival doorways were added. Two-story porticos with slender Italianate columns followed in the 1850s, a rare type in Virginia, and a rear addition came in the 1870s. Buff stucco unifies the many sections. The grounds keep a schoolhouse, spring house, tenant house, smokehouse and the small cottage called the Old Dwelling, plus a box-bordered garden and an early swimming pool built around 1916. The estate was listed for its architectural evolution and its link to the Dulany family. Richard Henry Dulany, a planter and Confederate cavalry colonel, founded the Upperville Colt and Horse Show here in 1853. Five generations of one family have cared for the house and its furnishings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Italianate elements in an evolved country house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, altered, 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 02:51:58.012087-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6816/41681623/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/72001404.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001404/368255ea82-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001404/368255ea82-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WELBOURNE,_LOUDOUN_COUNTY,_VA.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:WELBOURNE,_LOUDOUN_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681623","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welbourne_(Middleburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7980527"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/welbourne-72001404/"}