page_title: The Tuleyries
hierarchical_section_title: The Tuleyries
caption_attribution_description: English: CIRCA 1833; BRICK FEDERAL &amp; GREEK REVIVAL BUILT BY COLONEL JOSEPH TULEY. IT HAS A LARGE EAGLE OVER THE DOOR WHICH IS SAID TO BE THE REASON GENERAL PHILIP SHERIDAN SPARED THE HOUSE. THE FURNITURE OF THE WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY WAS STORED HERE AFTER THE WAR This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72001388
context_page_description: The Tuleyries is an ante-bellum estate near White Post, Virginia. The complex was built around 1833 by Colonel Joseph Tuley, Jr., who made the name a pun on his name and the Tuileries Palace. The house is a late Federal style mansion with a domed entrance hall. The house was sold by the Tuley family to Colonel Upton L. Boyce in 1866. In 1903 the property was acquired by Graham F. Blandy, who left over two-thirds of the land to the University of Virginia on his death in 1926. That land is now known as the Blandy Experimental Farm and The Virginia State Arboretum. The remaining property and house remained in the Blandy family. As well as twenty acres of lawn and garden the property includes a further three hundred and eighty six acres of forest and farm.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
context_section_description: The Tuleyries is an ante-bellum estate near White Post, Virginia.  The complex was built around 1833 by Colonel Joseph Tuley, Jr., who made the name a pun on his name and the Tuileries Palace.  The house is a late Federal style mansion with a domed entrance hall.  The house was sold by the Tuley family to Colonel Upton L. Boyce in 1866. In 1903 the property was acquired by Graham F. Blandy, who left over two-thirds of the land to the University of Virginia on his death in 1926.  That land is now known as the Blandy Experimental Farm and The Virginia State Arboretum. The remaining property and house remained in the Blandy family. As well as twenty acres of lawn and garden the property includes a further three hundred and eighty six  acres of forest and farm.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
caption: The Tuleyries, March 1971
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