Mount Sharon

Mount Sharon
Property entrance
Mount Sharon is located in Virginia
Mount Sharon
Mount Sharon is located in the United States
Mount Sharon
Nearest cityOrange, Virginia
Coordinates38°16′03″N 78°02′20″W / 38.267567°N 78.038786°W / 38.267567; -78.038786
Area77.5 acres (31.4 ha)
Built1937 (1937)
ArchitectLouis Lafarge
NRHP reference No.13000710[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 9, 2013

Mount Sharon is an historic estate house and plantation remnant in rural Orange County, Virginia. Located off Route 600 about 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of the city of Orange, the Mount Sharon estate house is a two-story Georgian Revival house built of concrete and faced in brick. It was designed in 1937 by Louis Bancel LaFarge for Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus, on a plantation they purchased in 1935 from the Taliaferro family, which had owned it since the early 18th century. The Augustuses demolished the deteriorating Victorian-era plantation house on the site to build the house, which has restrained exterior styling, and high quality interior woodwork designed by LaFarge.[2]

The property, consisting of the estate house, several outbuildings from the 1930s, and 77.5 acres (31.4 ha) of surrounding land (reduced from the more than 1,000 that made up the original plantation), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Mount Sharon" (PDF). Virginia DHR. Retrieved March 19, 2014.

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