{"nrhp_refnum":"66000845","name":"Mount Airy","other_names":["Mount Airy Plantation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Warsaw on U.S. 360","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warsaw","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.97357753600005,"lon":-76.79494758324282,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-10-09","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Airy is a stone Georgian plantation house near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1758 by Colonel John Tayloe on a hilltop above the Rappahannock valley.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an exceptional example of mid-eighteenth-century colonial design, with a fully Palladian five-part villa plan drawn from James Gibbs and William Adam. Its use of brown sandstone with lighter limestone details is described as a rare example of eighteenth-century stonemasonry in Virginia. The mix of English influences is said to form a distinct Colonial Georgian style.","narrative":"Mount Airy is a stone plantation house near Warsaw, Virginia, completed in 1758 by Colonel John Tayloe. It sits on a hilltop overlooking the Rappahannock valley and follows a five-part villa plan: a two-story center block, two square flanking dependencies and connecting covered passages. The design draws on James Gibbs's A Book of Architecture and William Adam's Vitruvius Scoticus. Unlike most houses of its period, it is built of brown sandstone with limestone trim rather than brick, a rare example of eighteenth-century stonemasonry in Virginia. A fire in 1844 gutted the interior, so little original woodwork survives, though carving may have been the work of William Buckland. The property was recognized for illustrating how English architectural pattern books shaped a distinct Colonial Georgian style. It remains a working farm of about 450 acres in the Tayloe family, with an orangery ruin and a family graveyard nearby.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (specific dates 1758, 1844)","architect_builder":"Built by Colonel John Tayloe; interior carving possibly by William Buckland","architectural_style":"Colonial Georgian / Palladian villa","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition; altered by a fire in 1844 that gutted the interior; still a working plantation and private residence, occupied by the Tayloe family and not open to the public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.483641-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/6791/41679113/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/66000845_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000845/8019aac4a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000845/8019aac4a9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack E. Boucher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Airy_HABS_Color.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack E. Boucher</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Airy_HABS_Color.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005837","name":"Occupacia-Rappahannock Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/occupacia-rappahannock-rural-historic-district-100005837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679113","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Airy_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6919298"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/mount-airy-66000845/"}