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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.
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
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States.
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.
3 paź 2014 · Mount Airy. Built in 1758 by John Tayloe II, Mount Airy was the first plantation house in the colonies built in the manner of a neo-Palladian villa.
Free printable topographic map of Mount Airy Plantation in Richmond County, VA including photos, elevation & GPS coordinates.
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.
