Built c. 1800 (1800) VLR # 002-0155 Opened 1800 Area 2.991 km² | NRHP Reference # 89001922 Designated VLR June 21, 1988 Floors 2 Added to NRHP 2 November 1989 | |
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Location VA 729 at the Rivanna River, near Shadwell, Virginia Architectural styles Colonial Revival architecture, Federal architecture | ||
Clifton is a historic home located near Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built about 1800, and is a large, rambling two-story, five bay, wood frame dwelling. The house has later 19th- and 20th-century Colonial Revival-style additions and alterations. The front facade features a double level porch, added about 1930, and the interior has Federal details. Also on the property are the contributing brick office (c. 1833-45); the ruins of an early 19th-century spring house; the shaft of a 19th-century stone-lined ice house; an early 20th-century chicken coop and an altered 1920s brick garage. Clifton was built by Congressman and Virginia Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (1768-1828). It was part of the never-to-be port of North Milton, a sister port to the now extinct village of Milton directly across the Rivanna River.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.