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Mount Airy Plantation

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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.

Facts
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Villa 1
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
Building Type
Neo-Palladian villa plantation house 1
Location
Near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia 1
Completed Year
1758 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Villa, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Source Wikipedia: Mount Airy (Warsaw, Virginia)

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Source Wikipedia: Mount Airy (Warsaw, Virginia)
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1. Wikipedia: Mount Airy (Warsaw, Virginia)
  • Lead, first sentence, type clause
    is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States
  • Lead, first sentence, location clause
    Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = 1758-62
  • In Style: Palladian Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Neo-Palladian
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Brick buildings and structures in Virginia
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