{"nrhp_refnum":"82001805","name":"Four Acres","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1314 Rugby Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville (Independent City)","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.04793491800007,"lon":-78.49259185299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Four Acres is a two-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival brick house at 1314 Rugby Road in Charlottesville, Virginia, built in 1910 for Melton C. and Lucy Cocke Elliot on a tract of roughly four acres.","why_significant":"The survey calls it an outstanding example of the Colonial Revival style, designed by architect Eugene Bradbury. It was also home to Admiral Halsey, who occupied it for several years in the late 1940s.","narrative":"Four Acres is a brick Colonial Revival house at 1314 Rugby Road in Charlottesville, completed in 1910 for Melton C. and Lucy Cocke Elliot as a summer residence. Architect Eugene Bradbury, who also designed the Elliots' Washington town house, drew up the plans. The house rises two and a half stories above a slightly raised basement and has a two-story Ionic portico with a pediment, dentiled cornices, stone lintels with keystones, and a steep hipped slate roof with pedimented dormers. Although built in the twentieth century, it used older methods, including hand-hewn interior beams, hand-forged nails and handmade bricks. The name comes from the surrounding tract, assembled by Mrs. Elliot through purchases in 1907 and 1915. Later owners included Julia Reynolds Austen, Lillian Edwards, and Admiral Halsey, who lived there in the late 1940s. Renovations over the years changed hardware, fireplaces and interior doors, but the house remains in excellent condition and is valued as an outstanding example of its style.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Eugene Bradbury (architect); built for Lucy Cocke Elliot","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; present use residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.757621-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/6786/41678623/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82001805.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001805/d72cbaf772-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001805/d72cbaf772-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Acres_house,_Charlottesville.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Acres_house,_Charlottesville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678623","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Acres_(Charlottesville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15218292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/four-acres-82001805/"}