W of Bremo Bluff off U.S. 15, Bremo Bluff, Virginia. County/parish: Fluvanna.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 12, 1969. NRIS 69000241.
14 contributing buildings. 1 contributing object.Also known as:
Bremo, also known as Bremo Plantation or Bremo Historic District, is a plantation estate covering over 1,500 acres (610 ha) on the west side of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The plantation includes three separate estates, all created in the 19th century by the planter, soldier, and reformer John Hartwell Cocke on his family's 1725 land grant. The large neo-palladian mansion at "Upper" Bremo was designed by Cocke in consultation with John Neilson, a master joiner for Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. The Historic District also includes two smaller residences known as Lower Bremo and Bremo Recess.
The plantation, which overlooks the James River, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its significance as a well-preserved example of Jeffersonian archicture.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680709