The William D. Rieley Fellowship
Salubria, Stevensburg, Culpeper County, VA
Salubria, Latin for healthful, was built in the mid-1740s by Reverend John Thompson for his wife, Lady Spotswood, and was the finest plantation home of its time. Several years later, Daniel Boone settled his family nearby and hauled tobacco from Salubria and neighboring farms to market in Fredericksburg. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Presidential Physician to Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, was born there nearly a century and a half later.
The oldest brick building in Culpeper County, the Georgian style manorhouse is listed on both the Virginia Landmarks and National Register of Historic Places. Its grounds include remnants of significant terraced gardens, part of the “falling gardens” tradition in Virginia, and two small graveyards.
Qualifications:
Fellows are expected to produce measured drawings and a written report to contribute to an archive of historic landscapes of Virginia. Applicants must be candidates for a MLA degree in landscape architecture or candidates for an equivalent academic program such as landscape or architectural history, archaeology, historic preservation, or horticulture.
Stipend:
Each Fellow will be paid a stipend of $6,000 plus certain living expenses for a three-month period
of work.
