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Mt. Airy is a five-bay, two-story, I-house, with a one-and-a-half-story rear-ell addition. The main block has a standing-seam metal side-gable roof with two interior-end chimneys.
23 lis 2016 · Title: Mount Airy Plantation (Colonel John Tayloe Plantation). Group Plan, Buildings and Gardens Architect: John Ariss Building Date: ca. 1758 Photograph date: ca. 1910-ca. 1950 Location: North and Central America: United States; Virginia, Richmond County Materials: gelatin silver print Image: 9 x 6 3/4 in.; 22.86 x 17.145 cm
10 sie 2023 · Dramatically set on a ridge above the broad bottomlands and marshes of the Rappahannock River in Richmond County, the five-part, neo-Palladian plantation house of Mount Airy is the most architecturally sophisticated of Virginia’s surviving colonial mansions.
Includes measured drawings showing house as plans, elevations, and details; sketches; photographs and miscellaneous supplementary materials
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.
Mount Airy is a two-story, frame, hall-parlor-plan house, constructed in the late eighteenth century by Colonel Thomas Leftwich. It is one of the earliest of a series of similar houses constructed by the Leftwich family in Bedford County. This plantation residence is a relatively late expression of the hall-
7 sty 2022 · Mount Airy Plantation, Warsaw Virginia. This is a villa type of house, with a five-part plan; two story center block, flanking square dependencies, and connecting covered passages. The spreading symmetrical plan was perfect for the Southern plantations, and a number of them proliferated there.
