Lewis Mountain

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Lewis Mountain
Location 1 Lewis Mountain Pkwy, near Charlottesville, Virginia
Coordinates 38°2′29″N 78°31′19″W / 38.04139°N 78.52194°W / 38.04139; -78.52194Coordinates: 38°2′29″N 78°31′19″W / 38.04139°N 78.52194°W / 38.04139; -78.52194
Area 42.3 acres (17.1 ha)
Built 1909 (1909)-1912
Architect Bradbury, Eugene; Manning, Warren H.
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 09001052[1]
VLR # 002-0923
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 7, 2009
Designated VLR September 17, 2009[2]

Lewis Mountain, also known as Onteora, is a historic home located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was designed in 1909, and completed in 1912. The house is a three-part plan granite dwelling, consisting of a nearly square center section flanked by one-story, flat-roofed wings in the Colonial Revival style. It features a massive wooden cornice employing a simplified version of the Roman Doric order of Vignola, a deck-on-hip roof with pedimented dormers at its base, and a portico with four Doric order columns. It also has a one-story, tetrastyle Tuscan portico that serves as a porte cochere. The steeply sloped property features a landscape designed by Warren H. Manning with a series of three terraces with tall dry-laid stone retaining walls.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. Calder Loth (July 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lewis Mountain" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos


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