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Carlheim

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Carlheim, also called Paxton, is a mansion in the northeast part of Leesburg, Virginia, built around 1872 in the Second Empire and Italianate styles by architects Henry C. Dudley and John Norris for Pennsylvania industrialist Charles R. Paxton and his wife Rachel, who lived there until her death in December 1921. The house covers nearly 20,000 square feet with 32 rooms on a 52 acre property, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1979. It now operates as the Paxton Campus of the Arc of Loudoun, an organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, hosting public events including a concert series and a haunted house attraction. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
Mansion 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Leesburg, United States 2
Completed Year
1872 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Mansion 1
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Mansion, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Italianate Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Carlheim (Wikipedia)
Second Empire Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Carlheim (Wikipedia)
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1. Carlheim (Wikipedia)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Carlheim, also called Paxton, is a mansion in the northeast part of Leesburg, Virginia, built around 1872 in the Second Empire and Italianate styles by architects Henry C. Dudley and John Norris for Pennsylvania industrialist Charles R. Paxton and his wife Rachel, who lived there until her death in December 1921. The house covers nearly 20,000 square feet with 32 rooms on a 52 acre property, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1979. It now operates as the Paxton Campus of the Arc of Loudoun, an organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, hosting public events including a concert series and a haunted house attraction.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1872)
    completion_date/completed = 1872
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (mansion)
    Carlheim (also called Paxton) is a mansion located in the northeast part of Leesburg, Virginia. It was constructed around 1872 for Pennsylvania industrialist Charles R. Paxton (1816-1889) and his wife, Rachel, who continued to live there until her death in December 1921. When constructed, it sat on over 760 acres (3.1 km2) roughly bounded on the north end by the Red Rock Wilderness Overlook Region
  • In Style: Second Empire Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Second Empire, Italianate
  • In Style: Italianate Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Second Empire, Italianate
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2. Carlheim (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Leesburg, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Leesburg, United States
Wikidata item Q5041277, property P131/P17 (location): Leesburg, United States
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