Birdwood (Charlottesville, Virginia)

Birdwood

Birdwood and water tower, April 2013
Location 500 Birdwood Dr., near Charlottesville, Virginia
Coordinates 38°02′55″N 78°32′01″W / 38.04861°N 78.53361°W / 38.04861; -78.53361Coordinates: 38°02′55″N 78°32′01″W / 38.04861°N 78.53361°W / 38.04861; -78.53361
Area 11.7 acres (4.7 ha)
Built 1819 (1819)-1830
Architect Charles Edgar and Hollis Rinehart
Architectural style Early Republic, Classical Revival, Jeffersonian Classicism
NRHP Reference # 03001094[1]
VLR # 002-0003
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 23, 2003
Designated VLR June 18, 2003[2]

Birdwood is a historic home located on the grounds of the University of Virginia's Birdwood Golf Course near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It is a two-story, brick plantation house built between 1819 and 1830. The main house is a square, double-pile, central-passage plan house with four rooms on each floor and an entry portico supported by four monumental Doric order columns. A massive Colonial Revival addition was built in the early-20th century. Also on the property are a two-room stone plantation quarters, a stable and garage, and a distinctive lighthouse-shaped water tower, and traces of the late 19th or early-20th century ornamental gardens that include sculpture and an elaborate iron and fieldstone gate.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[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. ↑ Richard Sidebottom (March 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Birdwood" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos

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