{"nrhp_refnum":"82004671","name":"Mulberry Hill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Liberty Hall Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lexington (Independent City)","county":"Lexington","state":"VA","lat":37.79011643500007,"lon":-79.44976733099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mulberry Hill is a two-story brick mansion on a 7.7-acre hilltop at the western edge of Lexington, Virginia, with a core built by Andrew Reid ca. 1798-1805 and later enlarged and remodeled.","why_significant":"The house shows a century of changing architectural taste in Lexington, evolving from a one-story double-pile core to a two-story gable-roof house and then a hipped-roof mansion. It also has unusually elaborate late Georgian woodwork and plasterwork, and an early 20th-century garden. It is tied to Andrew Reid, first Clerk of Court for Rockbridge County, and to the architect William G. McDowell.","narrative":"Mulberry Hill is a five-bay, two-story brick house on a ridge at the western edge of Lexington, Virginia, set within 7.7 acres of lawn and trees. Its core was built by Andrew Reid around 1798-1805. Reid was the first Clerk of Court for Rockbridge County and one of its wealthiest citizens. The house began as a one-story, four-room, double-pile brick building. A second story was added in the mid-19th century, probably for his son Samuel McDowell Reid. Around 1903, local architect William G. McDowell replaced the gables with a hipped roof, added a new cornice, and altered the main facade and upper-floor rooms. Inside, the principal rooms have elaborate late Georgian woodwork and plaster ornament, along with an iron fireback reading \"Be Liberty Thine.\" A formal boxwood garden was laid out in the 1930s behind the house. The property is noted for showing a hundred years of changing local taste and for its refined interior detail.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William G. McDowell (ca. 1903); original core built by Andrew Reid","architectural_style":"Late Georgian interior woodwork; Federal and Italianate elements; hipped-roof mansion","criteria":[],"status_note":"Undergoing renovation at the time of nomination; described as in good condition and expected to be inhabited again soon.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.377836-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/6815/41681512/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004671.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004671/27482df631-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004671/27482df631-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MULBERRY_HILL,_LEXINGTON_CITY,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ M.D.</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:MULBERRY_HILL,_LEXINGTON_CITY,_VA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001506","name":"Lexington Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/lexington-historic-district-72001506/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681512","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_Hill_(Lexington,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6933817"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/lexington/mulberry-hill-82004671/"}