Library of Virginia website has a 1937 photo and some information from
W.P.A. files - a catalogue search on subject: "belmont albemarle" brings
up Belmont and East Belmont. Click on the links and you get a digital
image of the W P A report - in this case 4 leaves and there is another URL
to the photograph.
Jon Kukla
URL http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/VHI/html/02/0260.html
Author Pate, Nancy S.
Title survey report, Belmont : 1937 Oct. 25 / research made by Nancy S.
Pate.
Material 4 leaves.
Gen. note Map location number: ALB39
Class: Home
Building date: 1730
Builder: Colonel Harvie
Location: 1.3 miles southwest of Keswick, Virginia on Route 22.
Primary owners: John Harvie, Everett family, and Pugh family.
Includes information on the Everett family.
Includes description of a burial ground on the site.
Includes information from tombstone inscriptions.
Includes description of the house and grounds.
Original house moved and divided into out buildings and a new house was
built on the site.
Includes abstracts of title.
Report accompanied by photograph: VHIP/02/0062.
Other Format Also available on microfilm.
Format Computer file. Richmond, Va. : Library of Virginia, 2000. 4
image files.
Issuing Body This write-up is a part of the Virginia W.P.A. Historical
Inventory Project sponsored by the Virginia Conservation Commission under
the direction of its Division of History.
> The Belmont constructed by Ludwell Lee is located east of Leesburg and is
> not the Belmont of Albemarle County, some 100 miles away. Although there
> is
> no definitive proof where James or Dolley Madison stayed after the flight
> from Washington, it is claimed that Dolley did go to Lee's Belmont estate.
> That is now restored and is the country club for a gated community.
>
> Richard E. Dixon
> Clifton, VA 20124-2115
> 703-830-8177
> fax 703-691-0978
>
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: John Philip Adams <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 9/18/2005 3:14:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: Belmont of Keswick Hunt County near Monticello
>>
>> Belmont's elegant house was erected 1799-1802 by Ludwell Lee
>> (1760-1836),
>> son of Richard Henry Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
>> Although practically unknown to most architectural scholars, the house
>> is
>> one of the most refined expressions of Federal-style plantation
> architecture
>> in the Middle Atlantic region. Laid out in the popular five-part plan,
>> it
> is
>> akin to such notable houses as Woodlawn, Dumbarton House in Washington,
>> D.C., and the mansions of Annapolis.
>>
>> Ludwell Lee was born on his father's plantation, Chantilly, in
> Westmoreland
>> County. He acquired the Belmont property through his first wife (and
>> first
>> cousin), Flora Lee, who inherited the land through their common
> grandfather
>> Thomas Lee of Stratford. Thomas Lee had patented the Belmont tract in
> 1728.
>> Ludwell served as aide-de-camp to General Lafayette during the campaign
>> of
>> 1781. Like most of his kinsman, he went into public service and became a
>> member of the Virginia General Assembly.
>>
>> The plantation served as a refuge for President Madison when the British
>> sacked Washington, D.C. during the war of 1812, and when General
>> Lafayette
>> made his triumphal tour of America in 1825, he was lavishly entertained
>> by
>> his old friend Ludwell Lee at Belmont.
>>
>> John Philip Adams, Cobb's Hall Lee Family
>> Baytown, Texas 77520
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lonny J. Watro
>> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 1:42 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Belmont of Keswick Hunt County near Monticello
>>
>>
>> Could anyone tell me the history of the Belmont Plantation of Keswick
>> Hunt
>> County. To pass the time I occassionally look through the Wall Street
>> Journal's Friday's Country Estates pages to see what plantations are on
> the
>> sellers block. This week there are two listed in the Charlottesville
>> area
>> that appear to have some history.
>>
>> Medow Hill Farm near Wintergreen Resort is only circa 1913.
>> But then there is Blemont which is claimed to be:
>> "Historic circa 1735 manor home on 23 acres in heart of Keswick Hunt
>> County."
>>
>> I searched the Internet to see if I could find a historical write-up for
>> Belmont of Albemarle (which is the county it would have probably been a
> part
>> of in 1735) - no luck. I'm sure Belmont must have had some interesting
>> inhabitants, because their neighbors would have been the Jeffersons, the
>> Merriwethers, the Lewis's, the Walkers, and other notable Albemarle
> citizens
>> of that time.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lonny Watro
>>
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