{"nrhp_refnum":"83003288","name":"Waverly","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"212 S. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Leesburg","county":"Loudoun County","state":"VA","lat":39.106182459000024,"lon":-77.56775585499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large 2½-story frame Victorian mansion at 212 South King Street in Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, built around 1890 for Robert Townley Hempstone on a roughly four-acre lot.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the largest Victorian frame house in Leesburg and a rare, ostentatious expression of prosperity in northern Virginia's Victorian architecture. It combines Colonial (Georgian) Revival and Queen Anne features, which were not usually paired locally. It is also a fine example of the craftsmanship of the local building firm John Norris and Sons.","narrative":"Waverly is a large, rambling Victorian mansion at 212 South King Street in Leesburg, Virginia, built around 1890 for Robert Townley Hempstone, a Baltimore merchant who retired to Loudoun County. The 2½-story frame house rests on a rusticated stone basement and has a slate hipped roof with metal cresting, semi-octagonal corner bays, and a Tuscan-columned porch with a central pediment. Inside, a wide central hall holds a monumental open-well stair lit by a stained-glass Palladian window, and eight varied mantels. It is described as the largest Victorian frame house in Leesburg, notable for blending Colonial Revival and Queen Anne details and for showing a level of display uncommon in northern Virginia while Loudoun County was still recovering from the Civil War. The local firm John Norris and Sons designed and built it, and the house has changed little since. Later uses included a restaurant in the 1950s and a private school in the 1970s, and it stood vacant when documented.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Norris and Sons - builders","architectural_style":"Late 19th-century Victorian residence with Colonial Revival and Queen Anne features","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in fair condition, unoccupied and vacant at the time of nomination; previously used as a residence, a restaurant in the 1950s and a private school in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.506873-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/6816/41681637/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/83003288.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003288/5733b137b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003288/5733b137b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Strawser","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waverly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Strawser</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waverly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681637","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverly_(Leesburg,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7975465"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/loudoun-county/waverly-83003288/"}