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Re: Belmont of Keswick Hunt County near Monticello
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    Belmont in Albemarle Co. was built in 1858 for Dr. Charles D.
Everett on the site of the first Belmont which was moved to the rear.
The house burned in 1883.
    From Lay, K. Edward, The Architecture of Jefferson Country:
Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia. University Press of
Virginia,  2000. page 188-189.
Vesta Gordon


Lonny J. Watro wrote:

> The Belmont that is for sale near Monticello is online at this real
> estate
> site.
> http://www.mcleanfaulconer.com/listingview.php?listingID=512
> The site claims it is near UVA. So, doesn't anyone know it's history?
> I'm so
> curious now. I know it wasn't Lee's Belmont. Who built it? Anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Lonny
>
>
>

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