Carter Hall
With its stately architecture and beautifully landscaped park, Carter Hall presents an idealized image of antebellum Southern gentility. The house was erected in the late 1790s for Col. Nathaniel Burwell, […]
Morea
In the shadow of Thomas Jefferson’s “Academical Village,” Morea is the only surviving dwelling built by one of the University of Virginia’s original faculty members. Erected in 1835, the singular […]
Upper Weyanoke
Archaeological investigations at Upper Weyanoke, a James River plantation in Charles City County, reveal an almost unbroken succession of settlements from the late-17th to the late-19th-century. The principal historic structure […]
Gay Mont
Located on a terraced ridge above the Rappahannock River valley in Caroline County, Gay Mont (now known as Rose Hill) preserves an extensively documented historic garden. The garden was the […]
Burks-Guy-Hagan House
The fanciful Burks-Guy-Hagan House in the town of Bedford, with its romantically landscaped grounds focusing on the Peaks of Otter, is a classic example of a Victorian suburban villa. As […]
Douthat State Park Historic District
Encompassing over 4,000 acres of scenic mountain lands, Douthat State Park in Alleghany and Bath counties was the first of six state parks established in Virginia by the Civilian Conservation […]
The Pentagon
One of the world’s most famous buildings, The Pentagon, alongside the Potomac River in Arlington County, has become the symbol of U. S. military might and America’s position as a […]
Colonial Village
Located at Wilson Boulevard, Lee Highway, and North Veitch Street and built in four phases between 1935 and 1940, the sprawling Colonial Village complex in Arlington County exemplifies the early […]
Sweet Briar House
Elijah Fletcher, publisher of the Lynchburg Virginian and mayor of that city, purchased this early-19th-century farmhouse in 1825 for a weekend retreat in nearby Amherst County. His wife, Maria Crawford […]
Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District
Extending through northeast Albemarle County from the Orange County line to the outskirts of the city of Charlottesville, with the Southwest Mountains forming its spine, the 31,000-acre Southwest Mountains Rural […]
