{"nrhp_refnum":"93001458","name":"Burlington","other_names":["68-07"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6400 Constitution Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Barboursville","county":"Orange County","state":"VA","lat":38.17461625900003,"lon":-78.25621178987407,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Burlington is a two-story, frame Greek Revival plantation house on about 200 acres of farm and woodland near Barboursville in western Orange County, Virginia. It was built in 1850-1851 for James Barbour Newman by carpenter George H. Stockdon and bricklayer William H. Routt.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Burlington as a sophisticated and almost unaltered example of pattern-book construction in rural Virginia. Its portico, door case, windows, mantels and moldings derive from Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter (1830 edition). Although the plan is a traditional I-house with an ell, the design departs from Virginia vernacular tradition, with a Chinese lattice balcony railing as the one Jeffersonian detail.","narrative":"Burlington is a Greek Revival plantation house on roughly 200 acres of farmland and woodland near Barboursville, in western Orange County, Virginia. James Barbour Newman had it built beginning in April 1851, and his family moved in on 1 January 1852. George H. Stockdon worked as carpenter and William H. Routt as bricklayer. The lumber and about 90,000 bricks came from the property itself. The two-story, three-bay house has a T-shaped plan, a six-column Ionic portico and a cantilevered second-floor balcony with a Chinese lattice railing. Its columns, door case, windows, mantels and moldings follow plates in Asher Benjamin's The Practical House Carpenter. Most Virginia houses of the period applied pattern-book details to traditional forms, whereas Burlington carries the approach through the whole design. The house kept nearly all its original fabric through successive owners, and later changes were limited to updated wiring and plumbing, a bathroom and a concrete floor in the basement dining room.","period_of_significance":"1850","architect_builder":"Routt, William H.; Stockton, George H. (the narrative spells the name Stockdon)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remains a single-family dwelling and the surrounding land is actively farmed; the house retains most of its original fabric, and none of the nineteenth-century outbuildings survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.133374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/6823/41682352/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/93001458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001458/9895839d8a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001458/9895839d8a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burlington_driveway_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burlington_driveway_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682352","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_(Barboursville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15205985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/orange-county/burlington-93001458/"}