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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.
Mount Airy is the name of several places in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia , a mid-Georgian plantation house built for Col. John Tayloe, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Richmond County and a National Historic Landmark
Mount Airy is an unincorporated community in northeastern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. Its altitude is 643 feet (196 m), and it is located at 36°56′35″N 79°11′32″W / 36.94306°N 79.19222°W / 36.94306; -79.19222 (36.9429172, -79.1922420), [ 1 ] along State Route 40 between Gretna and Brookneal
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Richmond County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The massive property was built in 1795.
John Taylor III, in turn, inherited it from his father, John Tayloe II, who built the grand colonial estate Mount Airy. The district contains three distinct historic residential farm clusters as well as two post-1950 stable complexes and several other auxiliary residential and agricultural buildings.
It is the largest county in Virginia by land area and second-largest by total area. The county is bounded on the north by the Roanoke River (this stretch of the river is known as the Staunton River), bisected by the Banister River running eastward through the center, and is drained on the south by the Dan River, flowing eastward. [5]