Burlington
Also known as: 68-07
Why it's listed
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.
Significance in brief: 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.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 93001458, listed January 11, 1994. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | 6400 Constitution Hwy., Barboursville |
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| County | Orange County |
| Listed | January 11, 1994 |
| Reference number | 93001458 |
| Resource type | Building |
| 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 |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Level of significance | State |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | 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. |
| Acreage | 200 |
| Coordinates | 38.17462, -78.25621 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
National Register listing is honorary: it recognises significance and does not restrict what a private owner may do without federal money or permits. It unlocks the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit for income-producing buildings, state credits in many states, and Section 106 review when federal agencies are involved. See what listing means in practice.
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Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 93001458.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q15205985
- This listing as JSON
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