{"nrhp_refnum":"82004537","name":"Edgehill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Shadwell on VA 22","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shadwell","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.01720018350005,"lon":-78.39495224086718,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Edgehill is a two-story Flemish-bond brick plantation house built in 1828 near Shadwell in Albemarle County, Virginia, for Thomas Jefferson Randolph, with an earlier wood-frame dwelling of about 1799, a circular icehouse and farm buildings on 24 acres.","why_significant":"The house was the home of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jefferson's favorite grandson, executor and heir to his papers. It is attributed on style and workmanship to University of Virginia builders William B. Phillips and Malcolm F. Crawford. The older frame house later served as part of the Edgehill School, and the estate remains a notable historic property within view of Monticello.","narrative":"Edgehill is a farm estate in eastern Albemarle County, Virginia, within view of Monticello. Its centerpiece is a two-story, hipped-roof brick house built in 1828 for Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, who served as his grandfather's executor and received his papers. The brickwork and Tuscan porch resemble work at the University of Virginia, and the house is attributed to builders William B. Phillips and Malcolm F. Crawford, who had worked there. Behind it stands a one-story wood-frame dwelling of about 1799, once home to Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson Randolph. It was moved and used as a school, the Edgehill School, through the 19th century. A fire in 1916 gutted the main house, but the exterior walls were saved and the interior rebuilt with a northern addition. A circular icehouse with its conical roof survives, and the open farmland setting remains largely intact on the nominated 24 acres.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William B. Phillips, Malcolm Crawford (attribution)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence and working farm; the interior was rebuilt after a 1916 fire.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.360946-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/6793/41679357/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004537.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004537/d23fda6ba6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004537/d23fda6ba6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edge_Hill_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edge_Hill_entrance.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"92000054","name":"Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/southwest-mountains-rural-historic-district-92000054/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679357","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Hill_(Shadwell,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712268"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/edgehill-82004537/"}