The much-evolved Mulberry Hill, one of the several historic houses dotting the hills around Lexington, illustrates changes in local architectural taste over a hundred-year period. The house grew from a one-story, double-pile core to a two-story, gable-roofed dwelling, and finally to a hip-roofed mansion. Its regionalized Georgian woodwork and plasterwork is some of the finest in the area. Apparently situated on the site of the 1777 residence of William Graham, the original section was begun ca. 1797 for Andrew Reid, the first Rockbridge County clerk. It was enlarged in the mid-19th century for his son Samuel McDowell Reid and given its present appearance ca. 1903 by local architect William C. McDowell when it was sold to Eleanor Junkin Cox Latane. Mulberry Hill’s early-20th-century garden frames a view of House Mountain, a familiar natural landmark.