{"nrhp_refnum":"93001442","name":"Loretta","other_names":["Edmonium","VDHR File No. 30-35"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 17 E side, 3500 ft. N of Warrenton town limits","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warrenton","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.747097327000034,"lon":-77.80923508157188,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-12-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Loretta is a seventy-six-acre farm on the east side of US 17, about three miles north of Warrenton in Fauquier County, Virginia. Its brick main house was built in the early nineteenth century and remodeled in Colonial Revival style in 1907-1908.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Loretta is one of the finest Colonial Revival houses in its area, showing how an early-nineteenth-century farmhouse became an elegant mansion. It also records the early twentieth century, when prominent and wealthy owners made it a working farm. Little has changed since the 1913 portico was added.","narrative":"Loretta is a seventy-six-acre farm north of Warrenton in Fauquier County, Virginia, centered on a brick mansion that began as a two-story, single-pile house built in the early nineteenth century by Frances Edmonds, widow of Colonel Elias Edmonds. Later owners added a frame rear wing. In 1907-1908 John and Cornelia Gaines rebuilt the house in the Colonial Revival style, replacing the frame wing with brick, raising the roof for a third floor, and adding dormers, French doors, a fanlight entrance and a new staircase. No architect is recorded. In 1913 the Finley family added a two-story Ionic portico, slightly off-center on the front. Only a cooking hearth, two Federal mantels and a brick smokehouse survive from the earliest period. Early twentieth-century barns, a corncrib and two tenant houses show its working-farm role. Because little has changed since 1913, the house and its outbuildings keep their integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1800-1913","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The remaining buildings are described as in excellent condition and retaining integrity; the main house is a single dwelling, and the tenant houses serve as employee quarters.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.917758-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/6805/41680599/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93001442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001442/74fbc338b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001442/74fbc338b9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LORETTA,_WARRENTON,_FAUQUIER_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:LORETTA,_WARRENTON,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680599","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_(Warrenton,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712747"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/loretta-93001442/"}