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Lewis Mountain

Lewis Mountain
Lewis Mountain seen from UVA.jpg
Distant view from below
Lewis Mountain is located in Virginia
Lewis Mountain
Lewis Mountain is located in the US
Lewis Mountain
Location 1 Lewis Mountain Pkwy, near Charlottesville, Virginia
Coordinates 38°2′29″N 78°31′19″W / 38.04139°N 78.52194°W / 38.04139; -78.52194Coordinates: 38°2′29″N 78°31′19″W / 38.04139°N 78.52194°W / 38.04139; -78.52194
Area 42.3 acres (17.1 ha)
Built 1909 (1909)-1912
Architect Eugene Bradbury, Warren H. Manning
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 09001052
VLR # 002-0923
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 7, 2009
Designated VLR September 17, 2009

Lewis Mountain, also known as Onteora, is a historic home located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was designed in 1909, and completed in 1912. The house is a three-part plan granite dwelling, consisting of a nearly square center section flanked by one-story, flat-roofed wings in the Colonial Revival style. It features a massive wooden cornice employing a simplified version of the Roman Doric order of Vignola, a deck-on-hip roof with pedimented dormers at its base, and a portico with four Doric order columns. It also has a one-story, tetrastyle Tuscan portico that serves as a porte cochere. The steeply sloped property features a landscape designed by Warren H. Manning with a series of three terraces with tall dry-laid stone retaining walls.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.


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