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George Carter built the house later called Oatlands in the early 1800b on the 3,500 acres given him by his father, Councillor Robert Carter of Nomini Hall. Along with his home, he designed the surrounding garden, considered one of the finest examples of early Virginia landscaping.
But the fortunes of the Carter family declined steadily after the Civil War. The builder’s son, George Carter II, was even forced to open the mansion to summer boarders. The estate was sold in 1897 to Stilson Hutduns, founder of Ths Washington Post, but the house was never occupied by Hutchins.
The house fell into disrepair, the gardens were overwhelmed by weeds and underbrush that threatened to choke the magnificent bxowood planted by George Carter a century earlier.
But rescue came in 1903 when William Corcoran Eustis, grandson of the founder of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and his wife purchased the estate.
"The Oatlands garden was foiling into ruins; bricks were crumbling, weeds crowding the flowers and yet the very moss-grown paths seemed to say, We are still what we were’,” Mrs. Eustis wrote in 1923.
She directed the refitting of every stone vase and bench, the replanting of the box hedges. Fruit trees that hid huge box and yew were cut down and rosary was laid out as a counterpoint to the boxgrove, improvements Mrs. Eustic felt sure the old designer and builder would have approved.
“'The things to be striven for — mystery, variety, and the unexpected — were difficult of attainment; but in certain places they have been attained,” Mrs. Eustice wrote.
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