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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1758/00/00 John Ariss Architect Construction begins Mount Airy using a mixture of enslaved and indentured laborers combined with highly-talented masons and woodworkers.
1764/00/00 Col John Tayloe II Home Mount Airy main house is completed for Colonel John Tayloe II. The plantation operates as a horse stud farm.
1765/00/00 Col John Tayloe II Home John Tayloe II breeds race horses at his Mount Airy Plantation, including: Sir Archy, Selima and Grey Diomed. The original stable and a few outbuildings, including a smokehouse and dairy - ice house, survive. Thoroughbred Horse Racing in America
1765/03/05 Sarah Tayloe Washington Born Rebecca Plater Tayloe, wife of Hon John Tayloe, gives birth to a daughter, Sarah "Sally" Tayloe.
1769/05/25 Francis Lightfoot Lee Groom Rebecca Tayloe marries Francis Lightfoot Lee. The couple will live at Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia until Menokin is completed. Marriage of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Rebecca Tayloe
1769/05/25 Rebecca Tayloe Lee Bride Rebecca Tayloe marries Francis Lightfoot Lee. The couple will live at Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia until Menokin is completed. Marriage of Francis Lightfoot Lee and Rebecca Tayloe
1770/04/11 Landon Carter Visitor Frank Lee tells Landon Carter that he has entirely laid aside all thoughts of a crop of tobacco at Menokin for this year to instead make use of his hands to build agricultural buildings.
1771/08/00 Francis Lightfoot Lee life Frank Lee writes from Mount Airy to his brother William: In three or four weeks I shall be under my own vine and shall remember to drink health and every blessing to my dear connections in London, William Lee and his wife.
1797/04/00 Francis Lightfoot Lee In Memoriam Francis Lightfoot Lee is buried in the Tayloe Cemetery at Mt Airy.
1797/04/00 Rebecca Tayloe Lee In Memoriam Rebecca Tayloe Lee is buried in the Tayloe Cemetery at Mt Airy.
1815/06/20 Henry G S Key Groom Henrietta Hill Tayloe marries Henry Greenfield Sothoron Key at Mt Airy, Richmond, Virginia.
1815/06/20 Henrietta Hill Tayloe Key Bride Henrietta Hill Tayloe marries Henry Greenfield Sothoron Key at Mt Airy, Richmond, Virginia.

Places

PlaceAsNotedInType
PlaceAsNotedInType
Menokin

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Particulars for Mount Airy Plantation:
Architectural Style Adamesque
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Georgian Architecture
Level of Significance National
Architectural Style Palladian
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 66000845
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Ariss,John
Architectural Style: Georgian, Other
Attribute: Palladian villa
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark, National Landmark boundary approved
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1750-1799, 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1758, 1844
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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