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23 lis 2016 · 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 Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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.
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 · 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.
21 lut 2024 · Prominent on the exterior of Mount Airy is the hefty modillion cornice. Inside is a wealth of original trim including paneled wainscoting, doors, cupboards, and mantels. Despite the loss of the original wing and subsequent later additions, the two-story core retains its hall/parlor plan.
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.
