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.[4]
Cobham Park | |
 Entrance to the estate | |
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| Location | South of VA 22, near Cobham, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°3′34″N 78°15′46″W / 38.05944°N 78.26278°W |
| Area | 692.5 acres (280.2 ha) |
| Built | 1856 |
| Built by | McSparren |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 74002101[1] |
| VLR No. | 002-0153 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | July 18, 1974 |
| Designated VLR | January 15, 1974[2][3] |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
- ^ CVirginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (December 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cobham Park" (PDF). and Accompanying photo