{"nrhp_refnum":"76002111","name":"Woodburn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 mi. SW of Leesburg off VA 704","address_restricted":false,"city":"Leesburg","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.08789875000005,"lon":-77.62211907146501,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodburn is a 240-acre farmstead southwest of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, with a brick manor house, a brick bank barn, a stable, an 1777 mill, a 1787 miller's house, a log-and-stone 'patent house' and, per a 2008 amendment, a 1909 Farm Manager's House.","why_significant":"The original nomination presents Woodburn as a well-preserved group of stone and brick buildings from the late 18th to mid-19th century, including the largest and finest brick barn of its type in the area. It shows the settlement of Northern Virginia and its early nineteenth-century growth under the Nixson family. A 2008 amendment adds the 1909 Farm Manager's House, which had been left out of the original description.","narrative":"Woodburn is a farmstead of 240 acres in the rolling hills southwest of Leesburg, Loudoun County. It holds a remarkably intact group of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings: a two-story brick manor house, a large forebay bank barn with round-headed brick arches under the forebay, a stable, a stone-and-frame mill dated 1777, a stone miller's house dated 1787, and a log-and-stone 'patent house' thought to be the original dwelling. George Nixson patented the land in the mid-eighteenth century and built the mill and miller's house. A later Nixson raised the brick house and barn in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, earning the house the nickname 'Dr. Nixson's Folly.' The barn is described as the largest and finest of its type in the area. A later amendment adds a frame Farm Manager's House built in 1909 with locally cut oak timber and a fieldstone foundation, which had been omitted from the first description.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1750-1909 (amendment); 1700-1899 on the original form","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 20th century Farmhouse (Farm Manager's House, per amendment); main house is a brick, five-bay, Federal-influenced dwelling","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Original form lists the property as occupied, private residence and agriculture use. The amendment says the Farm Manager's House is a private single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.088577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/6815/41681532/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002111.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002111/0f5008d565-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002111/0f5008d565-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WOODBURN,_LEESBURG,_LOUDOUN_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:WOODBURN,_LEESBURG,_LOUDOUN_COUNTY,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681532","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodburn_(Leesburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032444"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/woodburn-76002111/"}