Birdwood (Charlottesville, Virginia)

Birdwood is a historic home located on the grounds of the University of Virginia's Birdwood Golf Course near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It is a two-story, brick plantation house built between 1819 and 1830. The main house is a square, double-pile, central-passage plan house with four rooms on each floor and an entry portico supported by four monumental Doric order columns. A massive Colonial Revival addition was built in the early-20th century. Also on the property are a two-room stone plantation quarters, a stable and garage, and a distinctive lighthouse-shaped water tower, and traces of the late 19th or early-20th century ornamental gardens that include sculpture and an elaborate iron and fieldstone gate.[3]

Birdwood
Birdwood and water tower, April 2013
Location500 Birdwood Dr., near Charlottesville, Virginia
Coordinates38°02′55″N 78°32′01″W
Area11.7 acres (4.7 ha)
Built1819 (1819)-1830
ArchitectCharles Edgar and Hollis Rinehart
Architectural styleEarly Republic, Classical Revival, Jeffersonian Classicism
NRHP reference No.03001094[1]
VLR No.002-0003
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 23, 2003
Designated VLRJune 18, 2003[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. Richard Sidebottom (March 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Birdwood" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos


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