Carter Hall

Col. Nathaniel Burwell, great-grandson of Robert “King” Carter, constructed Carter Hall in the mid-1790s after moving here from Tidewater Virginia. Edmund Randolph Governor of Virginia, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. Secretary of State, died here in 1813 and was buried two miles north at Old Chapel. In Oct. 1862, Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson used Carter Hall as his headquarters. Pharmaceutical magnate Gerard Lambert purchased the estate in 1930 and hired New York architect Harry T. Lindeberg to remodel the house in the Georgian Revival style. Since 1977, Carter Hall has been the headquarters of Project Hope, a worldwide health foundation.