Cobham Park | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | January 15, 1974[1] [2] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 002-0153 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 38.0594°N -78.2628°W |
Builder: | McSparren |
Architecture: | Georgian |
Added: | July 18, 1974 |
Refnum: | 74002101 |
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 -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-storyframe 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.[3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.