Mountain Grove (Esmont, Virginia)
Mountain Grove, also known as the Benjamin Harris House, is a historic home located near Esmont, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built in 1803–1804, and consists of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by single-bay, 1+1⁄2-story wings, in the Jeffersonian style. The brick dwelling sits on a high basement and the center block is treated as a classical temple motif, is capped by a pedimented gable roof. Also on the property are the brick ruins of a 19th-century kitchen.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (May 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mountain Grove" (PDF). and Accompanying photo
External links
Media related to Mountain Grove (Esmont, Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Harris House, State Route 717, Esmont, Albemarle County, VA at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
