Meadowmont

Meadowmont is a Georgian Revival manor house and farm seat set on a hilltop above the meadows of Little Creek, near Chapel Hill. Built in 1933 for David St. Pierre DuBose and his wife Valinda Hill, it replaced a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century house whose stone foundations remain nearby. The brick house, designed by the Baltimore architects Herbert Crisp and James Edmunds Jr., recalls the plantation houses of colonial Virginia and Maryland. Its west front has a two-story columned portico, while the east entrance copies the doorway of the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis. One-and-a-half story wings modeled on the Adam Thoroughgood House flank the main block. Interiors feature marble floors, paneled rooms and Federal Revival mantels. The 27.752-acre tract also holds a brick-walled garden, a vegetable garden with a smokehouse and pony house, a garage, stable, well house, poultry house, pool and tennis court, most contemporary with the house. Complete drawings and specifications survive.