Esmont is a historic home located near
Esmont
Esmont is a historic home located near Esmont, Albemarle County, Virginia. The house was built about 1818, and is a two-story, three bay, square structure in the Jeffersonian style. It has a double pile, central passage plan. It is topped by ...
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Albemarle County, Virginia
Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Char ...
. The house was built about 1818, and is a two-story, three bay, square structure in the
Jeffersonian style. It has a double pile,
central passage plan
The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...
. It is topped by a low hipped roof, surmounted by internal chimneys, further emphasized by the use of a
balustrade
A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features. In furniture construction it is known as a spindle. Common materials used in its con ...
with alternating solid and Chinese
lattice
Lattice may refer to:
Arts and design
* Latticework, an ornamental criss-crossed framework, an arrangement of crossing laths or other thin strips of material
* Lattice (music), an organized grid model of pitch ratios
* Lattice (pastry), an ornam ...
panels. The front facade features a full-length tetrastyle porch with
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...
columns and entablature. Also on the property are a contributing brick kitchen
with a low hipped roof, office, a dairy and a
smokehouse
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Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...
. The house was built for Dr. Charles Cocke, a nephew of James Powell Cocke who built the
Edgemont.
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1977.[
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Palladian Revival architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1818
Houses in Albemarle County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia
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