 The property's landscape was redesigned in 1942, in the Colonial Revival style by noted landscape architects Beatrix Farrand and Walter Macomber.The house and grounds were donated to Fairfax County in 1970 by "New Republic" publisher Michael Whitney Straight and his wife Belinda Straight, who had moved their family to Washington D.C. during Massive Resistance.Its estate gardens (popular among local wedding photographers) feature boxwood hedging, roses, and perennial as well as annual borders.