{"nrhp_refnum":"78003002","name":"Estouteville","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of Powell Corner off VA 712","address_restricted":false,"city":"Powell Corner","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":37.88226075450004,"lon":-78.5733369802339,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-01-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Estouteville is a brick Roman Revival (Jeffersonian) mansion with early outbuildings on a 290-acre farm tract near Powell Corner in southern Albemarle County, Virginia. Construction began in 1827 under master carpenter James Dinsmore.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Estouteville as a leading example of the Jeffersonian or Roman Revival style, built by a craftsman who had worked for Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia. It cites the monumental Tuscan porticoes, the Doric-ornamented Great Hall, and the quality of workmanship and setting. The 290 acres supply the visual setting for the house.","narrative":"Estouteville is a brick mansion on a high hill in the rolling farmland of southern Albemarle County, Virginia, set within a 290-acre tract. Begun in 1827 for John Coles III, it was designed and built by James Dinsmore, a Scottish-born master carpenter who had earlier worked for Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia. The house has a two-story, seven-bay central block flanked by single-story wings, all in Flemish bond brick, with a tetrastyle Tuscan portico on each main facade. Inside, the Great Hall carries a Doric entablature with ox-skull metopes and a ceiling medallion drawn from Asher Benjamin's pattern book. Nearby stand a kitchen and wash house, a dairy, a smokehouse and a frame slave quarters with an unusually refined stair. The Coles family held the property until 1910. It was listed as an outstanding example of Jeffersonian architecture carried on by Jefferson's own craftsmen after his death in 1826.","period_of_significance":"1827-30","architect_builder":"James Dinsmore","architectural_style":"Roman Revival / Jeffersonian (Classical Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, occupied as a private residence, and maintained as a working farm at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.513114-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/6793/41679313/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/78003002.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003002/b7cb508bad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003002/b7cb508bad-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Lewis A. Coffin Jr. or Arthur C. Holden (authors of book)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estouteville_ca_1919.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis A. Coffin Jr. or Arthur C. Holden (authors of book)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estouteville_ca_1919.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001236","name":"Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/southern-albemarle-rural-historic-district-07001236/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679313","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estouteville_(Esmont,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712295"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/estouteville-78003002/"}