{"nrhp_refnum":"83003256","name":"Mirador","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 250","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenwood","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.03821565200005,"lon":-78.7562508711411,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-04-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A square, two-story brick country house on a raised basement, set on a knoll near the foot of the Blue Ridge along Route 250 at Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built in 1842 and remodeled in the 1920s.","why_significant":"Mirador was the childhood home of Nancy Langhorne, later Viscountess Astor, the first woman member of the British Parliament. Her sister Irene was the model for the \"Gibson Girl.\" The house was built as a Federal-style plantation house and was transformed in the 1920s by New York architect William Adams Delano into a Georgian Revival mansion.","narrative":"Mirador is a brick country house on a prominent knoll near the foot of the Blue Ridge, a landmark for travelers on Route 250 in western Albemarle County. James M. Bowen, a miller, built it in 1842 as a Federal-style plantation house. Chiswell Dabney Langhorne bought the property and made it a social center, adding one-story wings in 1897. His daughter Nancy lived there from age twelve until her 1906 marriage to Waldorf Astor, and later became Viscountess Astor, the first woman member of Parliament. Her sister Irene was the model for the \"Gibson Girl.\" In the 1920s, Nancy and Ronald Tree hired architect William Adams Delano, who extended the rear, altered the facade, and reworked the interior in Georgian Revival style, adding a central spiral stair and Federal woodwork brought from another Virginia house. The 32-acre grounds include terraced lawns, cottages, a stone entrance arch, and a Delano-designed stable.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"1920s renovation architect: William Adams Delano (Delano and Aldrich)","architectural_style":"Federal original construction; Georgian Revival 1920s remodeling","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, and occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.476646-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/6793/41679333/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003256.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003256/31e54eb846-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003256/31e54eb846-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Frances Benjamin Johnston","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirador_Greenwood_Albemarle_County_Virginia_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1926.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frances Benjamin Johnston</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirador_Greenwood_Albemarle_County_Virginia_by_Frances_Benjamin_Johnston_1926.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"11000258","name":"Greenwood-Afton Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/greenwood-afton-rural-historic-district-11000258/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679333","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirador_(Greenwood,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6872530"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/mirador-83003256/"}