Kenridge, also known as Colridge, is a historic home located near

Charlottesville Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Cha ...

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. It was built in 1922, and is a three-part plan dwelling, consisting of a two-story, five-bay, main block flanked by one-story wings in the

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

style. The house is built from hollow vitreous tiles faced with Flemish-bonded bricks. The sections are topped by

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...

-covered hipped roofs. It features a monumental two-story, tetrastyle

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

with colossal Tower of the Winds columns on the front facade. an
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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 2008.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Neoclassical architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1922 National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia Houses in Albemarle County, Virginia {{AlbemarleCountyVA-NRHP-stub