{"nrhp_refnum":"97001406","name":"Burrland Farm Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 30-1017"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Burrland Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middleburg","county":"Fauquier County","state":"VA","lat":38.9436,"lon":-77.7561,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"1997-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Burrland Farm Historic District is a 458-acre thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm about one mile south of Middleburg in Fauquier County, Virginia. Its main buildings were built between 1927 and 1932 for William Ziegler, Jr.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as an intact, well-equipped 1920s-30s thoroughbred complex in Virginia's hunt country, with Georgian Revival stables believed to be designed by architect William Lawrence Bottomley. It also notes the farm's rural designed landscape, its racetrack and its link to Ziegler's breeding and racing operation.","narrative":"Burrland Farm is a 458-acre thoroughbred breeding and training farm one mile south of Middleburg, Virginia. William Ziegler, Jr., a New York businessman, bought the property in 1926 and built most of the present complex between 1927 and 1932. The district includes a training barn, polo barn, stallion and broodmare barns, houses, garages, a springhouse, and a three-quarter-mile racetrack. The white, slate-roofed frame buildings with cupolas share a consistent Georgian Revival design. The 28-stall training barn, with an indoor oval track and an octagonal cupola, is the centerpiece. Although no drawings survive, the stables are attributed to architect William Lawrence Bottomley, who also designed the large addition to the Noland family's house at Burrland. That mansion was burned in the 1960s. The farm hosted a large race meet and horse show in 1931 and was regarded as one of the best-equipped stud farms on the Atlantic Seaboard. Its pastures, paddocks and stone fences remain, protected by a conservation easement.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Lawrence Bottomley (believed designer of the stables and designer of the house addition); William Ziegler, Jr. (owner/developer)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (Georgian Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Farm remains in operation as a thoroughbred farm; buildings are well maintained and the land is under a Virginia Outdoors Foundation easement. The original mansion was burned in the 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.369946-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6805/41680592/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/97001406.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001406/3e26600ea4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001406/3e26600ea4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BURRLAND_FARM_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BURRLAND_FARM_HISTORIC_DISTRICT,_FAUQUIER_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680592","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrland_Farm_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712112"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fauquier-county/burrland-farm-historic-district-97001406/"}