Buena Vista (Roanoke, Virginia)
Buena Vista | |
Location | Penmar Ave. and 9th St., Roanoke, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°15′50″N 79°55′28″W / 37.26389°N 79.92444°W |
Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
Built | c. 1840 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 74002244[1] |
VLR No. | 128-0001 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | July 30, 1974 |
Designated VLR | January 15, 1974[2] |
Buena Vista is a historic plantation house located in Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, brick Greek Revival style dwelling with a shallow hipped roof and two-story, three-bay wing. The front facade features a massive two-story diastyle Greek Doric order portico. Buena Vista was built for George Plater Tayloe and his wife, Mary (Langhorne) Tayloe. George was the son of John Tayloe III and Anne Ogle Tayloe of the noted plantation Mount Airy in Richmond County and who built The Octagon House in Washington D.C. The property was acquired by the City of Roanoke in 1937, and was used as a city park and recreation center.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
Earlier History
There are handwritten notes on the deed card that describe a much earlier history of the property. “The first building on this tract was log and frame. In 1853 a brick building was built by Geo. P. Tayloe. In 1889 George P. Tayloe enlarged and modernized the present building. David Bryan, Sr. will called this building the mansion house. The Tayloe papers refer to it as Roanoke – and later as Buena Vista. This tract was originally called the “Bottoms” and at the lower end was the Totera town visited by Batts Wood and Fallam in Sept 1671.” Ownership History
Date | Grantor | Grantor | |
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Oct 24, 1752 | Crown Grant | to | Charles Campbell |
Aug 17, 1753 | Charles Campbell | to | David Bryan |
1787 | William Bryan and David Bryan Jr | to | Tolliver Craig |
1779 | Tolliver Craig | to | Thomas Madison |
1801 | John H Madison (son) | to | Samuel G. Adams |
Samuel G. Adams | to | George Hancock, Sr. | |
George Hancock, Sr. | to | George Hancock, Jr. | |
Jun, 1823 | George Hancock Jr. (son) | to | William Langhorne |
1833 | William Langhorne | to | George P. Tayloe |
Dec 23, 1890 | George P. Tayloe | to | M.M. Rogers |
Dec 24, 1891 | M.M. Rogers | to | Virginia T. Rogers |
Feb 8, 1937 | Tayloe, Rogers, et al. | to | City of Roanoke VA |
Nov 22, 2011 | City of Roanoke VA | to | Scott and Ascension Horchler |
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Buena Vista" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
- Plantation houses in Virginia
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Greek Revival houses in Virginia
- Houses completed in 1840
- Houses in Roanoke, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Roanoke, Virginia
- Tayloe family of Virginia
- Tayloe family residences
- Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs