Welbourne (Middleburg, Virginia)

Welbourne is the main house of what was formerly a large plantation in Loudoun County, Virginia. The original core of the house, in what is now the south wing, was built about 1770. The stone house was two and a half stories tall, with three bays, one room deep. Some of the original woodwork survives in this section of the house. The house was expanded greatly by John Peyton Dulany around 1830, adding five bays in stuccoed brick, connected to the original house by a transverse hall. The interior of the new section features Greek Revival detailing. A two-story portico with Italianate columns was added in the 1850s, and the house was further enlarged with a two-story addition on the south side in the 1870s. The whole is covered with stucco, detailed with faux-painted joints.[3]

Welbourne
LocationNorthwest of the junction of VA 743 and 6111, Middleburg, Virginia
Coordinates39°00′04″N 77°48′44.1″W
Area520 acres (210 ha)
Built1770
NRHP reference No.72001404[1]
VLR No.053-0120
Significant dates
Added to NRHPFebruary 23, 1972
Designated VLRJuly 6, 1971[2]

The house faces an axial lane through a park-like setting. The house's surroundings include a designed garden to the east with one of the oldest swimming pools in Virginia. The property includes a number of outbuildings, including a tenant house, spring house, servants' house, toolhouse, smokehouse and a schoolhouse, as well as a subsidiary dwelling reputed to be older than the main house.[3]

The house has remained in the hands of Dulany descendants.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972,[1] and is operated as a bed-and-breakfast inn.[5]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (June 22, 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Welbourne" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  4. Levinson, Dan. "Fig & Fox: A Remembrance of Nat Morison, Patriarch of Welbourne". The Syncopated Times. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  5. "History". Welbourne Inn. Retrieved 15 September 2011.


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