Hillandale (Main Residence & Gatehouse)
- Year
- 1922
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Hillandale is a 1922-1925 estate in Burleith built for heiress Anne Mills Archbold, daughter of Standard Oil executive John D. Archbold and a prominent Washington socialite who later donated the land that became Glover-Archbold Park. The main residence and gatehouse are the only known Washington works of Boston architect Josephine Wright Chapman.
the building
Gatehouse and hilltop residence. The 42.1-acre estate paired a gatehouse and wall along Reservoir Road NW with the main residence set near the top of the hill, its stucco facades, terra cotta tile roofs, balconies, and loggias built in the Italian Villa manner.
Frescoed interiors. Inside the main residence, a frescoed vestibule and a music room with a vaulted ceiling survive from the original 1920s construction.
the style
The estate was built in the Italian Villa style, evident in its stucco walls, tile roofs, loggias, and balconies, an idiom suited to a hilltop retreat for a Gilded Age fortune.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Josephine Wright Chapman was a Boston architect; Hillandale's main residence and gatehouse are the only works by her known to survive in Washington, D.C.
significance
Hillandale has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995. In the late 1970s and early 1980s the 42-acre estate was subdivided for a gated community of 28 single-family houses and 238 townhouses, and the main residence itself was converted into two separate single-family dwellings.
nearby
- Western High School (Duke Ellington School of the Arts)
- Georgetown University, Astronomical Observatory
- Georgetown University, Old North
- Georgetown University, Healy Hall
- Volta Bureau
- Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct