West Cote

Virginia, United States

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West Cote is a historic brick dwelling built around 1830 near Howardsville in Albemarle County, Virginia, situated dramatically on a sweeping hillside overlooking the confluence of the James and Rockfish rivers. The two-story, five-bay house exemplifies Colonial Revival architecture and features a two-story Tuscan order portico with paired full-height columns and no pediment—design characteristics that associate it with a group of central Virginia houses built by builders influenced by or involved in the construction of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia. A well-preserved example of Early Republican-era high-style domestic architecture, the property retains several contributing outbuildings, including an office and guest house, smokehouse, corn crib, and stable, as well as an unusually wide and deep antebellum well. West Cote is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Virginia Historic Landmark.