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Redlands (Covesville, Virginia)

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Redlands, State Route 708, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA HABS VA,2 CARB.V,2 (sheet 4 of 6)
Redlands, State Route 708, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA HABS VA,2 CARB.V,2 (sheet 4 of 6)

Redlands is a historic home located near Covesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built between about 1798 and 1808, and is a rectangular two-story, five-bay, brick structure covered by a hipped roof in the Federal style. It features a Tuscan order front porch. Its interior is notable for its fine Adamesque woodwork. The master builder of the house was Martin Thacker, of neighboring Cedar Grove. It was built for Robert Carter, grandson of John Carter, around the time of his marriage to Mary Eliza Coles of neighboring Enniscorthy.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

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Redlands (Covesville, Virginia)
Carters Mountain Road,

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Redlands, State Route 708, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA HABS VA,2 CARB.V,2 (sheet 4 of 6)
Redlands, State Route 708, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA HABS VA,2 CARB.V,2 (sheet 4 of 6)
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Blenheim (Blenheim, Virginia)
Blenheim (Blenheim, Virginia)

Blenheim is a historic home and farm complex located at Blenheim, Albemarle County, Virginia. The once very large surrounding plantation was established by John Carter. Late in the 18th century, his son Edward Carter became the county's largest landowner, and in addition to public duties including service in the Virginia General Assembly built a mansion on this plantation where he and his family resided mostly in summers (and which he leased to the Virginia government during the American Revolutionary War to house captured British officers pending prisoner exchanges), but which was destroyed by fire and sold by auction circa 1840. The current historic main house and outbuildings were built by politician and diplomat Andrew Stevenson in 1846. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, six-bay, gable-roofed frame building with Gothic Revival and Greek Revival style details. It has an ell at the rear of the west end. The front facade features a pair of one-story tetrastyle porches with pairs of Doric order piers. A notable outbuilding is the square "Athenaeum", a one-story, one-room, frame Greek Revival building with a pyramidal hipped roof and portico supported on Doric piers. Also on the property are a frame kitchen/laundry, a "chapel" or schoolhouse, and two smoke houses. Also on the property are two dwellings, one of which is supposed to have been built to accommodate Justice Roger B. Taney on his visits to Blenheim.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.Blenheim Vineyards was established in 2000 on part of the property once owned by Edward Carter (of Blenheim), who sold a parcel to Thomas Jefferson which was in turn sold to Philip Mazzei, who established one of the first Virginia wineries early in the 19th century. Sites with a similar names but in other Virginia counties include Blenheim (Spring Mills, Virginia), a historic home in Campbell County, Virginia Historic Blenheim, a 19th-century Greek Revival farm house in Fairfax County, Virginia Blenheim (Ballsville, Virginia), a historic home in Powhatan County, Virginia Blenheim (Wakefield Corner, Virginia), a historic home in Westmoreland County, Virginia