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With its stately architecture and beautifully landscaped park, Carter Hall presents an idealized image of antebellum Southern gentility. The house was erected in the late 1790s for Col. Nathaniel Burwell, originally of Carter’s Grove in James City County. The massive Ionic portico was added in 1814 by Burwell’s son, George Burwell. In 1862, the Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson set up headquarters here, using the park as his campground. The plantation was purchased in 1930 by pharmaceutical magnate Gerard Lambert, who commissioned New York architect Harry T. Lindeberg to undertake an extensive remodeling. Lindeberg removed a cupola and had the stucco removed from the stone walls. The Georgian-style woodwork and flying spiral stair are also Lindeberg’s design. The beautiful park, located in Clarke County’s Greenway Rural Historic District, provides one of Virginia’s most impressive landscape settings for a historic house. Carter Hall has most recently served as the headquarters of the People to People Health Foundation, also known as Project HOPE.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
