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HABS VA,2-CHAR.V,7B- (sheet 3 of 4) - Watertower at Birdwood Pavilion, Ivy Road off of U.S. Route 250 West, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA
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HABS VA,2-CHAR.V,7B- (sheet 3 of 4) - Watertower at Birdwood Pavilion, Ivy Road off of U.S. Route 250 West, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA
Description
Birdwood Mansion; University of Virginia; Lay, K Edward, project manager; University of Virginia, School of Architecture, sponsor; Kasparek, Kate, transmitter; Kim, Andrew Byung, Kyu, delineator; Mattii, Lorenzo, delineator
Depicted place Virginia; Charlottesville; Charlottesville
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 34 x 44 in. (E size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS VA,2-CHAR.V,7B- (sheet 3 of 4)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • 1994 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place
  • Significance: The Watertower is one of five service buildings which surround Birdwood Mansion, a Roman Revival residence built sometime between 1818 and 1830, allegedly by some of Thomas Jefferson's workmen. The estate rests on land that was part of the 1734 David Lewis Crown grant and has been owned over the years by some prominent area citizens. The tower itself, located approximately 110 feet east of the mansion, was constructed circa 1910 by Hollis Rinehart to serve the pavilion grounds. Rinehart was the owner of a civil engineering and construction company of national repute. The tower's water tank, now dismantled, once rested inside the upper half of the structure collecting water channeled down from the ragged mountains. The idiosyncratically disposed vertical circulation as well as its form which allows clever concealment of its function, take their cues from lighthouse design, an area of construction with which Rinehart was quite familiar. Thus Birdwood's adaptive reuse of the lighthouse form and details is akin to the typical 18th and 19th century impulse to adorn vernacular constructions with high style features and ornamentation. Its form is especially appropriate when understood as a site strategy, commanding a presence over the vast sloping lawn to its north and east, just as well sited lighthouses do over the shoreline when viewed from sea.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N159
  • Survey number: HABS VA-1343
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1818 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1753.sheet.00003a
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