Bentivar Explained

Bentivar
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:December 1, 2004[1]
Designated Other1 Number:002-0127
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.0831°N -78.4347°W
Built:1795, c.
Architect:Thomas R. Blackburn
Architecture:Early Republic
Added:April 20, 2005
Refnum:05000333

Bentivar is a historic home and farm located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It is a one-story, double-pile brick residence, withEnglish basement and clearstory attic. It has a Palladian piano nobile plan. The traditional date for the building of Bentivar is 1795, but rebuilt about 1830 after a fire. Also on the property is a stone structure, apparently originally used as a dairy; ice pit; and graveyard.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2013-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bentivar . J. James Murray, Jr. . n.d. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120926185657/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Albemarle/Bentivar_nominatoin_nov-04.pdf . 2012-09-26 . and Accompanying four photos

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