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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, the ancestral home of the Tayloe family, is located in the Northern Neck of Virginia overlooking the Rappahannock River. Built by Col. John Tayloe II (completed 1764) the home was built, first and foremost, as a stud horse farm importing and siring many of the finest horses of the day; including, Diomed, Sir Archy and Selima.
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 the name of several places in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, a mid-Georgian plantation house built for Col. John Tayloe, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Richmond County and a National Historic Landmark.
Located in the Northern Neck of Virginia and not to be confused with Mount Airy in Philadelphia, this truly historic house is the first example in America of a stone Colonial mansion to be built in full Palladian style.
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.
The oldest surviving Orangery in North America is also here at Mount Airy. An architectural masterpiece, the home owns a commanding view of the Rappahannock River valley perched upon a small hill looking westward towards the town of Tappahannock, founded itself in 1608 by Captain John Smith.
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