Mount Airy (Verona, Virginia) Explained

Mt. Airy
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 21, 2012[1]
Designated Other1 Number:007-1021
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:38.1914°N -79.0072°W
Built:c., c. 1850
Added:August 22, 2012
Refnum:12000538[2]

Mount Airy, also known as the Grandma Moses House and Major James Crawford House, is a historic home located at Verona, Augusta County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, single-pile brick I-house. It has a rear -story, brick ell addition with porch built about 1850. Also on the property are a contributing washhouse (c. 1900), shed (c. 1900), and wagon house (c. 1921). The American artist Grandma Moses (1860–1961) and her husband Thomas Solomon Moses owned the house from January 1901 to September 1902. It was the first house they owned in their married lives.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 2019-12-13.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Listings . 2012-08-31 . Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 8/20/12 through 8/24/12 . National Park Service .
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Airy. Amy Ross Moses. March 2012. and Accompanying four photos