{"nrhp_refnum":"73002001","name":"Mulberry Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Randolph on VA 641","address_restricted":false,"city":"Randolph","county":"Charlotte County","state":"VA","lat":36.90819507950005,"lon":-78.69653636961633,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mulberry Hill is a plantation dwelling with a complex of early outbuildings, located east of Route 641 near Randolph in Charlotte County, Virginia. The house combines an eighteenth-century center section with mid-nineteenth-century wings.","why_significant":"It was the home plantation of Paul Carrington, a jurist and leader of the Independence movement in Virginia, who served on the General Court and the Court of Appeals. The house blends Georgian and Greek Revival work, and the property keeps an unusually complete set of early outbuildings.","narrative":"Mulberry Hill is a plantation house near Randolph in Charlotte County, Virginia, where two building periods meet. The eighteenth-century center section has a gable-end front pavilion, an interior-end chimney, and a Georgian stair with vase-and-column balusters. Mid-nineteenth-century two-story wings with Doric cornices and exterior chimneys flank it, and a Doric porch shelters the entrance. The grounds keep an unusually complete group of early outbuildings, including Judge Paul Carrington's small frame office, a brick kitchen, a spinning house, a dairy, a smokehouse, a privy and servants' quarters. A formal garden and Carrington's grave are also on the property. Carrington, born in 1733, served as King's Attorney, a Burgess and a member of the committee that framed the Virginia Declaration of Rights. He later sat on the General Court and the Court of Appeals, and helped found Hampden-Sydney College. After his death the estate passed to his son Robert, then in 1830 to Clement Carrington, whose descendants kept it.","period_of_significance":"18th and 19th centuries","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian center section with Greek Revival additions","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, unaltered, on its original site, and occupied as a private residence. Outbuildings are in various stages of preservation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.261096-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/6800/41680063/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002001.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002001/bc38ed7363-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002001/bc38ed7363-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Va. Dept. of Historic Resources","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SB_Mulberry_Hill_(16149945742).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Va. Dept. of Historic Resources</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SB_Mulberry_Hill_(16149945742).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680063","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_Hill_(Randolph,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712933"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlotte-county/mulberry-hill-73002001/"}