Built by Stuart, Archibald VLR # 132-0006 Opened 1791 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | NRHP Reference # 72001531 Designated VLR January 18, 1972 Area 4 ha Added to NRHP 5 May 1972 | |
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Built 1783 (1783), 1791, 1844 Similar Blue Ridge Mountains, Woodrow Wilson President, Staunton National Cemetery, Frontier Culture Museum | ||
Stuart House is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. The original portion of the house was built in 1791, and is a story, temple-form brick structure fronted by a two-level pedimented portico supported by four very simple and provincial Tuscan order-like columns. The house measures 35 feet square, and is five bays wide and three bays deep. The house has a large 2 1/2-story brick wing added in 1844. The wing is fronted by a gallery ornamented with lattice-work and supported on brick piers. Also on the property is a gambrel roof frame building, erected sometime after 1783 as Archibald Stuart's residence and law office, and a pyramidal roof smokehouse. According to family tradition, Stuart received plans or suggestions for the house's design from his close friend, Thomas Jefferson. Archibald Stuart died in 1832 and the house was inherited by his son, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1807-1891).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Newtown Historic District.