{"nrhp_refnum":"91000018","name":"Tetley","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"VA 64 E of jct. with VA 231","address_restricted":false,"city":"Somerset","county":"Orange County","state":"VA","lat":38.23852100950003,"lon":-78.20387203861144,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A forty-five-acre farm property with a two-story brick main house built about 1843, on the north side of Route 641 near Somerset in western Orange County, Virginia. The house was built by its owner, Captain William Smith, and the property has five contributing buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Tetley is architecturally significant as a well-preserved antebellum Virginia house with Federal and Greek Revival detailing. Features that set it apart from simpler houses include Flemish bond brick on all four facades, ornate plaster ceiling medallions and Greek Revival exterior woodwork. Its collection of mid and late nineteenth century outbuildings, including an unusual octagonal icehouse, adds to its importance.","narrative":"Tetley is a forty-five-acre farm on the north side of Route 641 in western Orange County, Virginia, bounded on the north by the Rapidan River. Its main house, a two-story, five-bay, hipped-roof brick residence on a high English basement, was built about 1843 by Captain William Smith, a large local landholder. Flemish bond brickwork appears on all four facades, an unusual choice for so late a date, and the windows and doors carry Greek Revival trim. Inside, a central stair hall, original mantels and plaster ceiling medallions survive. The 1940s brought a pedimented south portico, a west wing and terraced gardens. Surviving outbuildings include a brick summer kitchen, two antebellum frame slave houses and an octagonal icehouse on a rubble stone foundation. Three mid-twentieth-century buildings do not contribute. The property was listed for its architecture, as a well-kept example of transitional Federal and Greek Revival design in the county.","period_of_significance":"1843-1940","architect_builder":"Unknown; built by owner Captain William Smith. The form notes the house resembles four houses by Major William A. Jennings and suggests he may have designed it.","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; 20th-Century Revival: Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in an excellent state of preservation; the residence is still used as a single dwelling with secondary structures. One slave house is derelict and the other was renovated as a bath house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.62764-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/6823/41682346/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/91000018.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000018/ee053ca584-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000018/ee053ca584-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetley_gate_and_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetley_gate_and_driveway.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90002115","name":"Madison-Barbour Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/madison-barbour-rural-historic-district-90002115/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682346","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetley_(Somerset,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16901444"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/orange-county/tetley-91000018/"}