Mountain Grove, also known as the Benjamin Harris House, 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 ...

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 in 1803–1804, and consists of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by single-bay, -story wings, in the Jeffersonian style. The brick dwelling sits on a high basement and the center block is treated as a classical temple motif, is capped by a pedimented gable roof. Also on the property are the brick ruins of a 19th-century kitchen. an
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in 1980.

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Benjamin Harris House, State Route 717, Esmont, Albemarle County, VA
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(HABS) Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Palladian Revival architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1804 Houses in Albemarle County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Albemarle County, Virginia Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia {{AlbemarleCountyVA-NRHP-stub