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Cobham Park (Virginia)

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Built by
  
McSparren

NRHP Reference #
  
74002101

Designated VLR
  
January 15, 1974

Year built
  
1856

Architectural style
  
Georgian

VLR #
  
002-0153

Area
  
2.802 kmĀ²

Added to NRHP
  
18 July 1974

Cobham Park (Virginia)

Location
  
South of VA 22, near Cobham, Virginia

Cobham Park, or Cobham Park Estate, is a historic estate located near Cobham, in Albemarle County and Louisa County, Virginia. The mansion was built in 1856, and is a rectangular 2 1/2-story, five bay, double pile structure covered by a hipped roof with three hipped roof dormers on each of the main slopes, and one dormer on each end. The house is an unusual example of ante-bellum period Georgian style architecture. It features front and rear, simple Doric order porches supported on square Ionic order columns. Also on the property are two smokehouses, one brick and one frame, a frame dependency, and a simple two-story frame dwelling. It was the summer home of William Cabell Rives, Jr., (1825-1890), second son of the noted United States senator and minister to France William Cabell Rives.

Map of Cobham Park, Rivanna, VA 22947, USA

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Cobham Park (Virginia) Wikipedia