In Orange County, the 77-acre Mount Sharon property features a restrained Georgian Revival-style country house designed by noted 20th-century New York architect Louis Bancel LaFarge. LaFarge’s mastery of Georgian Revival design and proportion is evident in Mount Sharon, as well as his attention to fine craftsmanship and his familiarity with then-modern 1930s building technology and systems including reinforced concrete-and-steel construction for strength and fireproofing and central low-pressure steam heating. The property also contains brick gateposts from a previous Mount Sharon house that was begun in 1888, a late-19th-century manager’s house, and a small garage and a larger chauffeur’s quarters and garage built in 1937, when the main residence was completed.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia