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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
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.
With Air Walls. One Section 2500 Two Sections 5000. 50' x 50' 275 100' x 50' 550 Three Sections 7500. 100' x 75' 825 Four Sections. 10000. 100' x 1000' 1100 Five Sections. 12500. 125' x 100' 1375 Six Sections. 15000.
3 paź 2014 · With three-foot-thick walls of locally quarried dark brown sandstone and limestone quoin trim, Mount Airy is one of few stone houses built in Virginia during the 18th century and the first example of a neo-Palladian villa in the colonies—its aristocratic elegance fitting for one of the wealthiest Virginians of his time.
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.
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-
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.
