{"nrhp_refnum":"89001798","name":"Lawn, The","other_names":["76-178"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"15027 Vint Hill Rd./VA 215","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nokesville","county":"Prince William County","state":"VA","lat":38.74952302600005,"lon":-77.64529585756964,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural estate district at the hamlet of Greenwich in western Prince William County, Virginia, with a Tudor Revival house built in 1926 on the foundation of a Gothic Revival mansion, plus Gothic Revival outbuildings and a landscaped lawn.","why_significant":"It is described as the only surviving example in Prince William County of Gothic Revival used as the overall theme of a mid-nineteenth century farm complex. It is also an unusual case of Romantic Revival styles within a picturesque rural landscape. It is tied to Charles Green, an English cotton merchant, and his family, including the French author Julian Green.","narrative":"The Lawn is a country estate at Greenwich, in western Prince William County, Virginia. Charles Green, an English-born cotton merchant from Savannah, bought the land in 1855 and built a board-and-batten Carpenter Gothic mansion, finished around 1861, with matching outbuildings set in a park-like lawn. The complex struck one Civil War visitor as the strangest house in Virginia. After the main house burned, Green's son-in-law William MacKall hired the Washington firm A. B. Mullett and Co., which designed a Tudor Revival replacement completed in 1926 on the original foundation. Surviving outbuildings include a Gothic Revival schoolhouse, a stone dairy, a smokehouse, a root cellar, a tenant house and a barn. The estate is notable as the only surviving Gothic Revival farm complex of its kind in the county. It also has a literary link, since Green's grandson, the novelist Julian Green, visited and set a novel there.","period_of_significance":"1850-1926","architect_builder":"Charles Green; A. B. Mullett and Co., Washington, D.C.; Julian Green","architectural_style":"Mid-Nineteenth Century/Gothic Revival; Twentieth Century Revivals/Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house and grounds are described as carefully maintained and in residential use. A privy, a barn, a silo and the ruins of a turkey barn are overgrown or in poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.149218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/6827/41682713/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/89001798.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001798/004c9ae036-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001798/004c9ae036-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THE_LAWN,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:THE_LAWN,_PRINCE_WILLIAM_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682713","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawn_(Nokesville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16901505"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-william-county/lawn-the-89001798/"}