{"nrhp_refnum":"73002206","name":"Ellerslie","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Ellerslie Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Colonial Heights (Independent City)","county":"Colonial Heights","state":"VA","lat":37.27101775750006,"lon":-77.40520640021549,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ellerslie is an Italian Villa style mansion with a landscaped park on Ellerslie Road in Colonial Heights, Virginia, built circa 1857 for tobacco merchant David Dunlop and extensively remodeled in 1910.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Ellerslie as a well-preserved ante-bellum estate with an unusual Italian Villa mansion and a rare surviving mid-nineteenth century private landscaped park. The house is one of the few Virginia buildings documented as designed by a foreign architect. It also has Civil War associations as General Beauregard's headquarters and a Confederate rest camp.","narrative":"Ellerslie is a country estate on Ellerslie Road in Colonial Heights, Virginia, centered on an Italian Villa style mansion completed around 1857. David Dunlop, a Scottish-born Petersburg tobacco grower and dealer, had the house designed by Robert Young of the Belfast firm Young and MacKenzie. Early images show a stuccoed house with a flat roof, a three-story tower and a porte-cochere, set in a romantic park with lakelets, paths and garden ornaments. During the Civil War, General Pierre G. T. de Beauregard used Ellerslie as headquarters, and in 1864 Confederate troops camped on the grounds. In 1910 the Richmond firm Carneal and Johnston remodeled the house for David Dunlop II, adding a hipped roof with dormers, a veranda and new interiors, while the park was kept largely intact. The house is among the few Virginia buildings documented as the work of a foreign architect.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Robert Young of Young and MacKenzie, Belfast, Ireland (original design); Carneal and Johnston of Richmond (1910 remodeling)","architectural_style":"Italian Villa (remodeled in 1910 in the \"Bungaloid\" mode)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; in use as a private residence, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.103571-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/6802/41680263/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002206.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002206/204bab4f3d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002206/204bab4f3d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nickmorgan2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellerslie_gate.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nickmorgan2</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:Ellerslie_gate.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680263","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellerslie_(Colonial_Heights,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15216466"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/colonial-heights/ellerslie-73002206/"}