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| Keywords: James Monroe Law office 3a.gif en TITLE Monroe Law Office Limestone Plantation Virginia Route 250 Keswick Albemarle County VA CALL NUMBER HABS VA 2-KESW 1A- REPRODUCTION NUMBER See Call Number MEDIUM Measured Drawing s 8 18 x 24 in Data Page s 10 plus cover page DATE Documentation compiled after 1933 CREATOR Historic American Buildings Survey creator RELATED NAME S Monroe James Jefferson Thomas NOTE Survey number HABS VA-988 Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure FN-280 Building/structure dates 1794 initial construction Significance The Limestone Estate is part of the original Crawford and Lewis patents of 1731 and 1734 Subsequent owners include James Monroe his brother Andrew Thomas Jefferson and Dr George Blaetterman in whose family the property remained until the twentieth century The Monroe Law Office - the oldest residential structure - bears the date 1794 and is known to have been used by both James and Andrew Monroe The Monroe Law Office is a small three bay single pile eighteenth century wood frame structure raised on a high brick basement with a steeply pitched roof Although only one of the two original external ramped chimneys remain and numerous alterations have taken place the Monroe Law Office remains an exemplary eighteenth century Tidewater form transplanted to Piedmont Virginia SUBJECTS VIRGINIA--Albemarle County--Keswick COLLECTION Historic American Buildings Survey Library of Congress REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division Washington D C 20540 USA DIGID http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/hhh va0069 CONTROL VA0069 LOC-image hhh va0069 Historic American Buildings Survey 1933 HABS VA 2-KESW 1A- Higher resolution JPEG uncompressed archival TIFF James Monroe Law office | ||||
