{"nrhp_refnum":"74002138","name":"Lansdowne","other_names":["Arthur Lee House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Virginia St. at Upton Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"Urbanna","county":"Middlesex County","state":"VA","lat":37.636733495000044,"lon":-76.57650778999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Lansdowne, also called the Arthur Lee House, is a two-story, T-shaped brick Georgian mansion at Virginia Street and Upton Lane in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia. It was built circa 1740-1750, with a large rear wing added within about a decade.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house as the 1791-1792 home of Arthur Lee, a major diplomatic figure of the Revolutionary era who helped negotiate treaties with France. It also presents the house as a major example of Virginia Georgian architecture, with notable brickwork and colonial paneling.","narrative":"Lansdowne is a two-story, T-shaped brick mansion in Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia, built around 1740-1750 in the early Georgian style. A large rear wing was added within about a decade, and later additions include a frame wing from around 1880. The walls are laid in fine Flemish bond with glazed headers, with rubbed and gauged brick details. Inside, the drawing room has full paneling and thirteen fluted Doric pilasters. The house was remodeled around 1900, and a pedimented south portico was restored to its original two-level form in the years before the nomination. Ralph Wormeley IV first owned it, and it later passed to James Mills and Robert Beverley. In 1791 Arthur Lee bought it and lived there until his death in 1792. Lee had served as a commissioner in the negotiations that produced the 1778 treaties with France, and later sat in the Continental Congress. His grave is in the family graveyard behind the house. The nomination values both his association and the quality of the architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence in fair condition, altered but on its original site; the form lists it as occupied. A portico was recently restored to its original two-level configuration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.707749-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/6819/41681966/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002138.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002138/37b2af48af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002138/37b2af48af-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ryanlintelman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lansdowne,_Urbanna,_Virginia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryanlintelman</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:Lansdowne,_Urbanna,_Virginia.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005837","name":"Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/occupacia-rappahannock-rural-historic-district-100005837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681966","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdowne_(Urbanna,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712688"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/middlesex-county/lansdowne-74002138/"}