Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is regarded as the first neo-Palladian villa built as a plantation house in the mid-Georgian United States, constructed between 1758 and 1762 to a design associated with John Ariss and built by William Buckland for the planter Colonel John Tayloe II. The estate's roughly 450 acres overlook the Rappahannock River valley, and the property retains the earliest surviving orangery in North America. Mount Airy was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and remains privately owned by Tayloe descendants.
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Building Type (category) Building Type (category) Building Type (category) Building TypeNeo-Palladian villa plantation house 1 LocationNear Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia 1 Completed Year Classification
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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.
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is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States
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Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia
John Tayloe II
The project began around 1748 and finished in 1758.
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1758-62
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In 1682 Col. William Tayloe purchased 3,000 acres from Col. Moore Fauntleroy's son William, and built a 20-room brick dwelling called "The Old House." William's son, Col. John Tayloe I inherited the house upon his father's death in 1710.
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