Mount Fair

Mount Fair
Location Junction of VA 673 and VA 810
Coordinates 38°09′55″N 78°40′39″W / 38.16528°N 78.67750°W / 38.16528; -78.67750Coordinates: 38°09′55″N 78°40′39″W / 38.16528°N 78.67750°W / 38.16528; -78.67750
Area 78.3 acres (31.7 ha)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 90001997[1]
VLR # 002-0097
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 28, 1990
Designated VLR August 21, 1990[2]

Mount Fair is a historic home and farm complex located in Albemarle County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1848, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, frame building with Greek Revival style details. It has a hipped roof with "widow's walk" and a one-story, one bay porch with a flat roof supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property are a contributing detached kitchen, a greenhouse, and two contributing structures, an icehouse and a spring house. The tract also has three contributing sites: the ruins of slave quarters, a slave cemetery, and a family cemetery.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[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. Rhonda L. Lefever (August 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Fair" (PDF). and Accompanying photo


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