Cobham Park (Virginia) Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. 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.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cobham Park . CVirginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff. December 1973. and Accompanying photo