Built 1909 (1909)-1912 VLR # 002-0923 Area 17 ha | NRHP Reference # 09001052 Designated VLR September 17, 2009 Added to NRHP 7 December 2009 | |
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Architectural style Colonial Revival architecture |
Lewis mountain cabins
Lewis Mountain, also known as Onteora, is a historic home located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was designed in 1909, and completed in 1912. The house is a three-part plan granite dwelling, consisting of a nearly square center section flanked by one-story, flat-roofed wings in the Colonial Revival style. It features a massive wooden cornice employing a simplified version of the Roman Doric order of Vignola, a deck-on-hip roof with pedimented dormers at its base, and a portico with four Doric order columns. It also has a one-story, tetrastyle Tuscan portico that serves as a porte cochere. The steeply sloped property features a landscape designed by Warren H. Manning with a series of three terraces with tall dry-laid stone retaining walls.
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.