With its complicated evolution from a one-story, double-pile core to a two-story, gable-roof dwelling, and finally to a hipped-roof mansion, Mulberry Hill illustrates important changes in architectural taste in Lexington spanning a hundred year period. Adding to its interest is the unusually elaborate though provincial Georgian woodwork and plasterwork in the principal rooms, some of the finest of its period in the region. The house was begun ca. 1790 for Andrew Reid, first Clerk of the Court for Rockbridge County. It was enlarged in the mid-19th century for his son, Samuel McDowell Reid, and given its present appearance ca. 1903 by the local architect William G. McDowell. Complementing the house is a notably handsome early 20th-century garden. - NRHP Registration