Carr's Hill

Virginia, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Carr's Hill, the University of Virginia President's House near Charlottesville, is a two-story Colonial Revival villa designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1906. Built of brick, the residence features a commanding double-height pedimented portico in the Doric order, a slate-covered hipped roof, and two tall chimneys across five bays. Positioned to overlook the university chapel and the "Academical Village," the property encompasses several contributing structures, including a guest cottage from circa 1840, Buckingham Palace (1856), the Leake Cottage (circa 1870), and a carriage house built in 1908. The grounds also preserve two iron capitals salvaged from the Robert Mills Rotunda Annex following the devastating 1895 fire. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, Carr's Hill exemplifies the refined Classicism that McKim, Mead & White brought to American institutional architecture.