{"nrhp_refnum":"87000624","name":"Mount Ida","other_names":["Vdhr 02-2202","former 14-115"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"East of VA 795, about 4 mi. N of Scottsville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scottsville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":37.84880175200007,"lon":-78.48975617403687,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Ida is a two-story, wood-frame plantation house built circa 1785-1805 in Buckingham County, Virginia. It was dismantled and reassembled in 1996 near Scottsville in Albemarle County, where it now stands.","why_significant":"The form singles out the extraordinary woodwork of the west parlor, where a fully paneled fireplace wall is described as a masterpiece of joinery and ornamental woodcarving. The parlor's elaborate treatment contrasts sharply with the rest of the house, signalling the owner's social standing. The documents also record the house's relocation, approved to save it from deterioration, and its ownership history.","narrative":"Mount Ida is a plantation house dating from about 1785 to 1805, built in Buckingham County, Virginia, and now standing near Scottsville in Albemarle County. The two-story, wood-frame dwelling began as a single-pile, side-passage house with a large west parlor, a smaller wing and probably another room to the east, and later grew into a more complex plan. Its chief distinction is the west parlor, where the fully paneled fireplace wall combines monumental scale with delicate carving and is described as a masterpiece of joinery. The contrast with the plainer rooms shows the importance the owner placed on impressing visitors. Later owners included David Ross, a Richmond milling and mining figure, and the Leitch family. The house was left to deteriorate, and its outbuildings fell into ruin. A preservation-minded buyer dismantled it in 1995 and rebuilt it on a hilltop site near the Hardware River, following documentation and archaeological testing. Federal officials allowed it to stay listed during the move.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Dismantled in 1995-96 and reassembled as the centerpiece of a farm along the Hardware River in Albemarle County; remains a single-dwelling residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.349665-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/6793/41679321/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/87000624.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000624/43cd6df218-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000624/43cd6df218-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ida_Farm_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Ida_Farm_entrance.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07001236","name":"Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/southern-albemarle-rural-historic-district-07001236/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679321","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ida_(Scottsville,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712911"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/mount-ida-87000624/"}