National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. VLR Listed: 12/13/2018 1. Name of Property NRHP Listed: 4/15/2019 Historic name: ____Milburne ________________________________________ Other names/site number: __DHR No. 127-6160 __________________________________ Name of related multiple property listing: _______N/A____________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: ____315 Lock Lane_________________________________________ City or town: _Richmond________ State: _VA________ County: __Independent City_ Not For Publication: N/A Vicinity: N/A ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _X_ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: _X__national _X__statewide ___local Applicable National Register Criteria: ___A _X_B _X_C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date _Virginia Department of Historic Resources_________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Milburne City of Richmond, VA Name of Property County and State ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: x Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) District X Site Structure Object Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Milburne City of Richmond, VA Name of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ____2________ _____0_______ buildings ____1________ _____1_______ sites ____0________ _____0_______ structures ____0________ _____0_______ objects ____3________ _____1_______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ____0____ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) _DOMESTIC: single dwelling _DOMESTIC: secondary structure _LANDSCAPE: garden ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) _DOMESTIC: single dwelling _DOMESTIC: secondary structure _LANDSCAPE: garden _OTHER: domestic recreation ___________________ ___________________ Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Milburne City of Richmond, VA Name of Property County and State ____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) _LATE 19th and EARLY 20th CENTURY REVIVALS: Georgian Revival_ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: __BRICK; STONE: Limestone, Slate; METAL: Iron; WOOD; STUCCO Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph Milburne is at once an impressive, handsomely-landscaped estate overlooking the James River in Richmond’s Windsor Farms and the elegant five-part Georgian Revival-style mansion that stands at the center of its grounds. Both are known as Milburne and are the work of William Lawrence Bottomley (1883-1951), the New York-based country house architect, who in 1934 designed the house and created its site plan, “The Gardens on the Estate of Walter S. Robertson, Esquire, Richmond, Virginia,” which became the template for Milburne’s landscape development. Milburne stands on its original 5.03-acre tract, which was enlarged to 7.26 acres by the purchase of a 2.23-acre lot on its northwest border in 1967. The City of Richmond has adjusted the taxable acreage to 6.941 acres. On the 1926 plat of the Windsor Farms neighborhood, the original tract appears as a wedge-shaped pendant at the end of Lock Lane, a narrow street that generally follows the path of an early nineteenth century road carrying south from today’s Cary Street Road to a lock on the Kanawha Canal and which, since 1926, defines the west boundary of the acclaimed residential subdivision. In addition to the mansion, the property has a contributing outbuilding (tool shed) and a contributing site (landscape design) as well as a non-contributing site (recreation area). All contributing historic resources retain a high degree of integrity of location, setting, design, workmanship, materials, feeling, and association. ___________________________________________________________________________ Section 7 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Milburne City of Richmond, VA Name of Property County and State Narrative Description William Lawrence Bottomley Milburne, the house erected in 1934-1935 by the firm of Claiborne & Taylor, Incorporated, under the supervision of Herbert Augustine Claiborne (1886-1957), is an elegant, remarkably well-preserved Georgian Revival-style mansion. The penultimate of fourteen houses designed by William Lawrence Bottomley for Richmond and Richmond-area clients between 1915 and 1935, it is the most imposing of the group, and arguably the finest work of his career in Virginia, where his name has been described as synonymous with the Colonial Revival. In its overall design, the hierarchical proportions of its five-part Palladian plan, and its rich program of classical detailing, Milburne represents the work of the famed country house architect at the height of his powers. It came as a commission to Bottomley in 1933, who then having enjoyed the patronage of wealthy Virginians over a period of twenty years, had also gained a valuable professional knowledge of the commonwealth’s colonial and early-national period landmarks. During this period Bottomley had drawn on Virginia precedent for his design of town and country houses, selecting elements of the past, whether the plan, massing, woodwork, or materials of fabled houses for recreation in houses that evoked the past while answering the demands of early-twentieth century clients. While its five-part plan derives from those of several Virginia and Maryland houses, the seven- bay center block with its pedimented, gable-front pavilions has precedents in Mt. Airy and Blandfield, the entrance at Milburne is copied from the doorway at Wilton, and Bremo, the landmark residence of General John Hartwell Cocke, was the inspiration for features of the mansion’s river elevation, Milburne is an altogether original synthesis of the past in a house of a new, later day. All that William Lawrence Bottomley had learned as an architect, as a scholar of America’s eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century architecture, and as chair

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