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Carrs-Brook

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1780s. 313 Gloucester Rd. (VA 1424)
  • (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

The hierarchically ordered composition of masses at Carrs-Brook is a provincial interpretation of the five-part Palladian formula, known in the United States in the eighteenth century through publications such as Robert Morris's Select Architecture (1757). The frame structure consists of a two-and-one-half-story central block with pedimented gable ends, connected by hyphens to flanking one-and-one-half-story wings, also with pedimented gable ends. Carrs-Brook was built for Captain Thomas Carr between 1780 and 1790. From 1798 to 1815, Jefferson's ward and nephew, Peter Carr, used the structure as his residence and as a school. Jefferson has been suggested as the architect, due both to his close relationship with the Carr family and to his familiarity with Morris's work. However, his influence may have been indirect, since the emphatic verticality of the central mass and the steep roof pitches are decidedly un-Jeffersonian and suggest another hand.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Citation

Richard Guy Wilson et al., "Carrs-Brook", [Charlottesville, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-CH45.

Print Source

Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 166-166.

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