HomeMy WebLinkAboutSP201500019 Study 2015-04-24Virginia Department of Historic Resources DHR ID: 002 -0003
Architectural Survey Form Other DHR ID: No Data
Property Information
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Property Names
Property Evaluation Status
Name Explanation
Name
Historic
Birdwood Estate NRHP Listing
Historic
Birdwood Pavilion VLR Listing
Current
University of Virginia's Center for Politics
Historic /Current
Birdwood
Property Addresses
Domestic
Alternate - Route 250 West
Single Dwelling
Current - 500 Birdwood Drive
1819Post
County/Independent City(s):
Albemarle (County)
Incorporated Town(s):
No Data
Zip Code(s):
22903
Magisterial District(s):
No Data
Tax Parcel(s):
06000- 00- 00 -028CO
USGS Quad(s):
CHARLOTTESVILLE WEST
Additional Property Information ■
Architecture Setting: Rural
Acreage: 11.7
Site Description:
Birdwood is located in the foothills west of Charlottesville on nearly twelve acres of land.
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Birdwood possesses a collection of dependencies as well as agricultural outbuildings and structures from both the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, as well as the remains of a late - nineteenth/early - twentieth - century garden.
Surveyor Assessment:
Birdwood is a unique dwelling built between 1819 and 1830 as the plantation home of William Garth, one of the most successful
planters of antebellum Albemarle County, Virginia. The house exhibits many of the characteristics common to buildings at the
University of Virginia and other early nineteenth- century houses in the area known to have been built by Thomas Jefferson's builders.
The immediate grounds surrounding the mansion contain four dependencies that are unusual compared to similar Jeffersonian
properties in the county, including a brick smokehouse, and an office with a basement icehouse. The house is also significant for its
Colonial Revival additions undertaken by Charles Edgar and Hollis Rinehart, both prominent citizens of Charlottesville. This work
includes the extension of the house, a distinctive water tower designed in the form of a lighthouse and ornamental gardens.
Surveyor Recommendation: Legacy
Ownership
Ownership Category Ownership Entity
Public - State No Data
Primary Resource Information
Resource Category:
Domestic
Resource Type:
Single Dwelling
Date of Construction:
1819Post
Historic Time Period:
Early National Period (1790 - 1829)
Historic Context(s):
Architecture/Landscape, Domestic
Architectural Style:
Classical Revival
Form:
No Data
Number of Stories:
2.0
Condition:
Good
Interior Plan:
Central Passage, Double Pile
Threats to Resource:
None Known
Architectural Description:
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Virginia Department of Historic Resources DHR ID: 002 -0003
Architectural Survey Form Other DHR ID: No Data
The original portion of the house is a cubic brick mass laid in Flemish bond and dominated by a monumental entrance portico supported by four
Doric columns. The doorways of the main facade on the first and second levels are both single doors topped by elliptical transoms and latticed
sidelights. The symmetrical facades and overall proportions are carried throughout the exterior walls by window and door openings, incised
brick panels and four interior end chimneys. The roof is presently covered with a slate roof but portions of the original metal- covered hipped
roof survive under later additions. The original plan is a square, double -pile, central - passage design with four rooms on each floor. The building
has a significant addition from the Colonial Revival period also of Flemish bond that elongated the building and created a perpendicular
scondary axis in the resulting floor plan. The majority of interior woodwork and fireplaces also date to the Colonial Revival period although
some details date from the first period of the building.
Exterior Components
Component Component Type Material Material Treatment
Windows Sash, Double -Hung Wood 6/6
Structural System and Masonry Brick Bond, Flemish
Exterior Treatment
Windows Other Wood Other
Chimneys Interior Brick Cap, Corbeled
Porch 2- story, 3 -bay Wood Columns, Tuscan
Roof Pyramidal Slate No Data
Secondary Resource Information
Secondary Resource #1
Resource Category:
Domestic
Resource Type:
Single Dwelling
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1800
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
Stone dwelling which was perhaps originally a carriage house built in the 19th century.
Number of Stories:
1.5
Secondary Resource #2
Resource Category:
Government
Resource Type:
Water Tower
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1800
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
Brick tower with belvedere.
Number of Stories:
Secondary Resource #3
Resource Category:
Agriculture /Subsistence
Resource Type:
Barn
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
No Data
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
Stone barn with stepped parapet -- next to silo.
Number of Stories:
No Data
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Architectural Survey Form
Secondary Resource #4
Resource Category:
Resource Type:
Architectural Style:
Form:
Date of Construction:
Condition:
Threats to Resource:
Architectural Description:
No Data
Secondary Resource #5
Agriculture /Subsistence
Silo
No Data
No Data
No Data
No Data
No Data
Resource Category:
Domestic
Resource Type:
Garage
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1900
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
No Data
casement windows, and completed
Number of Stories:
No Data
Secondary Resource #6
DHR ID: 002 -0003
Other DHR ID: No Data
Resource Category:
Domestic
Resource Type:
Slave /Servant Quarters
Architectural Style:
No Discernable Style
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1865
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
A stone slavequarter is located south of the main house. It is built of uncoursed rubble, exterior end, ramped chimneys, double entrance,
casement windows, and completed
with a molded cornice and tin gable roof. (This building could be one of the oldest outbuildings in the
county but the surveyor was unable to go inside).
Number of Stories:
No Data
Secondary Resource #7
Resource Category:
Resource Type:
Architectural Style:
Form:
Date of Construction:
Condition:
Threats to Resource:
Architectural Description:
No Data
Secondary Resource #8
Social/Recreational
Pool /Swimming Pool
No Data
No Data
1900
No Data
Vacant
Resource Category: Domestic
Resource Type: Single Dwelling
Architectural Style: No Data
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Architectural Survey Form Other DHR ID: No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1800
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
Stone house.
Number of Stories:
1.5
Secondary Resource #9
Resource Category:
Agriculture /Subsistence
Resource Type:
Barn
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1850
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
Brick barn.
Number of Stories:
No Data
Secondary Resource #10
Resource Category:
Domestic
Resource Type:
Single Dwelling
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1950
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
2 brick residences.
Number of Stories:
No Data
Secondary Resource #11
Resource Category:
DSS Legacy
Resource Type:
Shed
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
No Data
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
Wood frame.
Number of Stories:
No Data
Secondary Resource #12
Resource Category:
DSS Legacy
Resource Type:
Shed
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1900
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
Vacant
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Architectural Survey Form Other DHR ID: No Data
Architectural Description:
No Data
Number of Stories: No Data
Secondary Resource #13
Resource Category:
Funerary
Resource Type:
Cemetery
Architectural Style:
No Data
Form:
No Data
Date of Construction:
1820
Condition:
No Data
Threats to Resource:
No Data
Architectural Description:
An overgrown graveyard located west of Birdwood Golf Course. Contains graves dating from 1816 including those of members of several
prominent Charlottesville families -- the Garths, Lewises and Woods. The graveyard is surrounded by a stone wall and wrought iron fence.
Current Use:
No Data
Historic Religious Affilitation:
No Data
Ethnic Affiliation:
No Data
Has Marked Graves:
False
Has Unmarked Graves:
False
Enclosure Type:
Wall
Number Of Gravestones:
No Data
Earliest Marked Death Year:
No Data
Latest Marked Death Year:
No Data
Historic District Information -
Historic District Name: No Data
Local Historic District Name: No Data
Historic District Significance: No Data
CRM Events -
Event Type: Survey:Phase I/Reconnaissance
Project Review File Number: 1990 -0755
Investigator: Gray & Pape, Inc.
Organization/Company: Unknown (DSS)
Sponsoring Organization: No Data
Survey Date: 4/1/2006
Dhr Library Report Number: Charlottesville Daily Progress
Project Staff/Notes:
No Data
Event Type: NRHP Listing
DHR ID: 002 -0003
Staff Name: NPS
Event Date: 10/23/2003
Staff Comment
No Data
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Architectural Survey Form
Event Type: VLR Listing
DHR ID:
Staff Name:
Event Date:
Staff Comment
No Data
Event Type: NRHP Nomination
DHR ID:
Staff Name:
Event Date:
Staff Comment
No Data
002 -0003
State Review Board
6/18/2003
002 -0003
Sidebottom, Richard
3/1/2003
Event Type: Survey:Phase I/Reconnaissance
Project Review File Number:
No Data
Investigator:
Wuellner, Margarita
Organization /Company:
Unknown (DSS)
Sponsoring Organization:
No Data
Survey Date:
2/27/1992
Dhr Library Report Number:
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Project Staff/Notes:
JMA #3113, Alt. 10 - Route 29
bypass study
Event Type: Survey:Phase I/Reconnaissance
Project Review File Number:
Investigator:
Organization /Comp any:
Sponsoring Organization:
Survey Date:
Dhr Library Report Number:
Project Staff/Notes:
Very brief description of graveyard.
No Data
L.C.A.
Unknown (DSS)
No Data
5/1/1988
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Event Type: Survey:Phase II/Intensive
DHR ID: 002 -0003
Other DHR ID: No Data
Project Review File Number:
No Data
Investigator:
Hodge, Brooke
Organization /Company:
Unknown (DSS)
Sponsoring Organization:
No Data
Survey Date:
11/30/1983
Dhr Library Report Number:
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Project Staff/Notes:
Used a National Register Nomination form but was not complete -- was appearantly done as a school project but was not revised following
professor's feedback.
Event Type: Survey:Phase II /Intensive
Project Review File Number:
Investigator:
Organization /Company:
Sponsoring Organization:
Survey Date:
Dhr Library Report Number:
Project Staff/Notes:
No Data
Mickler, Margaret P.
Unknown (DSS)
No Data
9/1/1979
Charlottesville Daily Progress
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Architectural Survey Form Other DHR ID: No Data
No Data
Event Type: Survey:HABS Inventory
Project Review File Number:
No Data
Investigator:
Crouch, Richard
Organization /Company:
Unknown (DSS)
Sponsoring Organization:
No Data
Survey Date:
10/1/1967
Dhr Library Report Number:
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Project Staff/Notes:
Written directly on the 1958 HABS form with an additional notation from a Mrs. N. Shenkir ( ?) in Fall of 1967.
Event Type: Survey:HABS Inventory
Project Review File Number:
Investigator:
Organization /Company:
Sponsoring Organization:
Survey Date:
Dhr Library Report Number:
Project Staff/Notes:
No Data
No Data
Worthington, George
Unknown (DSS)
No Data
1/1/1958
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Event Type: Survey:Phase I/Reconnaissance
Project Review File Number:
No Data
Investigator:
No Data
Organization /Company:
Unknown (DSS)
Sponsoring Organization:
No Data
Survey Date:
No Data
Dhr Library Report Number:
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Project Staff/Notes:
"Three Notched Road Survey" noted as a "project documented by students in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia under the
direction of K. Edward Lay, Assistant Dean"
Bibliographic Information _
Bibliography:
No Data
Property Notes:
Name: Unknown
Company 1: University of Virginia
Address 1: PO Box 400726
City: Charlottesville
State: Virginia
ZIP: 22904
Owner Relationship: Owner of property
Project Bibliographic Information:
Name: Gray & Pape, Inc.
DHR CRM Report Number: AB -120
Record Type: Report
Bibliographic Notes: A Phase IA Reconnaissance Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Charlottesville Reservoir to South Fork, of the Rivanna
River Pipeline on Behalf of the Rivanna Wiater Authority, Albermarle County, Virginia.
Prepared by: Sweeten, McNeal, and McDonald of Gray & Pape, Inc.
Prepared for: Garnnett Fleming, Inc.
April 2006.
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Name: Rood, Devon
DHR CRM Report Number: Cavalier Daily
Record Type: Article
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Bibliographic Notes: "Sabato Donates $1 Million to Benefit, Promote University" - Monday 7 February 2005.
DHR ID: 002 -0003
Other DHR ID: No Data
Name: Andrews, Kate
DHR CRM Report Number: Charlottesville Daily Progress
Record Type: Article
Bibliographic Notes: "Sabato Makes $1 Million Donation to University" - Saturday 5 February 2005. Articles announcing planned conversion of
Birdwood into Center for Politics as planned use of donation by the center's director, University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato.
Name: Patricia Plante, Kathryn Hardy, Stephen Plog
DHR CRM Report Number: AB -19
Record Type: Report
Bibliographic Notes: "Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Birdwood Tract, Albemarle County, Virginia " - 1980; University of Virginia.
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