{"nrhp_refnum":"73002012","name":"Ashleigh","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Delaplane, off U.S. 17","address_restricted":false,"city":"Delaplane","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.90294558700006,"lon":-77.9190451606607,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ashleigh is a one-story Greek Revival country house of stuccoed stone near Delaplane in Fauquier County, Virginia, built about 1840 for Margaret Marshall. A man named Sutton built it.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Ashleigh a striking Greek Revival country house with unacademic proportions and pleasing simplicity of detail. It is described as basically unaltered and one of the most distinctive ante-bellum homesteads of northern Virginia. It was built for a granddaughter of Chief Justice John Marshall, who designed it herself.","narrative":"Ashleigh is a Greek Revival country house on a hill south of Delaplane in Fauquier County, Virginia. Built about 1840 for Margaret Marshall, a granddaughter of Chief Justice John Marshall, it sits on land from the family's Oak Hill estate. She is said to have designed it herself, and a local builder named Sutton carried out the work. The one-story, three-bay main block has stuccoed stone walls painted yellow, a Greek Doric portico with a shallow pediment, cast-iron balconies and flanking one-story wings. The house is set into the slope so the basement forms a full story on the south side. The nomination points to its unacademic proportions and simple detail, and compares it to Greek Revival villas of Alabama and Mississippi. Later owners included Gray Carroll and Samuel P. Bayly. In 1929 Dr. Edmund Horgan renovated the house and installed pine paneling taken from the White House during the Hoover Administration. The property remains largely unaltered, with about one hundred acres of farmland around it.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1840)","architect_builder":"Designed by Margaret Marshall; built by a man named Sutton","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition excellent; occupied private residence, set on about 100 acres of farmland.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.079625-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/6806/41680611/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002012.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002012/ee2fa14bd6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002012/ee2fa14bd6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASHLEIGH,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASHLEIGH,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680611","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_(Delaplane,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4805302"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/ashleigh-73002012/"}