Viewmont, State Routes 20 & 712 vicinity, Charlottesville — Detail of mantel (living room east wall)
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- Source:
- Library of Congress
- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey
- Date:
- Documentation compiled after 1933
- Region:
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Description:
- Photo(s): 5 | Measured Drawing(s): 4 | Data Page(s): 3 Subjects: wooden buildings, outside end chimneys, houses, brick foundations, stovepipes, mantels, standing-seam metal roofs, livestock, domestic life, ells, porches, 2 stories, brick chimneys, woodwork, paneled doors, sash windows, outbuildings, gable roofs, laths, shutters Locations: independent city, charlottesville, virginia Notes: Significance: Joshua Fry built the Viewmont house by 1737, but it burned sometime before 1800. The dwelling pictured in the 1937 HABS photographs also burned, just two years after HABS visited, in 1939. The house recorded by HABS was constructed on the original foundation and incorporated the chimneys from that structure as well. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS VA-11-12 Building/structure dates: ca. 1737 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1939 Demolished
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