Buena Vista (Roanoke, Virginia)

Historic house in Virginia, United States

United States historic place

Buena Vista

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Virginia Landmarks Register

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Location| Penmar Ave. and 9th St., Roanoke, Virginia
Coordinates| 37°15′50″N 79°55′28″W﻿ / ﻿37.26389°N 79.92444°W﻿ / 37.26389; -79.92444
Area| 20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built| c. 1840 (1840)
Architectural style| Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.| 74002244[1]
VLR No.| 128-0001
Significant dates
Added to NRHP| July 30, 1974
Designated VLR| January 15, 1974[2]

Buena Vista is a historic plantation house located in Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, brick Greek Revival style dwelling with a shallow hipped roof and two-story, three-bay wing. The front facade features a massive two-story diastyle Greek Doric order portico. Buena Vista was built for George Plater Tayloe and his wife, Mary (Langhorne) Tayloe. George was the son of John Tayloe III and Anne Ogle Tayloe of the noted plantation Mount Airy in Richmond County and who built The Octagon House in Washington D.C. The property was acquired by the City of Roanoke in 1937, and was used as a city park and recreation center.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

Earlier History

There are handwritten notes on the deed card that describe a much earlier history of the property. “The first building on this tract was log and frame. In 1853 a brick building was built by Geo. P. Tayloe. In 1889 George P. Tayloe enlarged and modernized the present building. David Bryan, Sr. will called this building the mansion house. The Tayloe papers refer to it as Roanoke – and later as Buena Vista. This tract was originally called the “Bottoms” and at the lower end was the Totera town visited by Batts Wood and Fallam in Sept 1671.” Ownership History

Date  | Grantor  |  | Grantor

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Oct 24, 1752  | Crown Grant  | to  | Charles Campbell
Aug 17, 1753  | Charles Campbell  | to  | David Bryan
1787  | William Bryan and David Bryan Jr  | to  | Tolliver Craig
1779  | Tolliver Craig  | to  | Thomas Madison
1801  | John H Madison (son)  | to  | Samuel G. Adams
| Samuel G. Adams  | to  | George Hancock, Sr.
| George Hancock, Sr.  | to  | George Hancock, Jr.
Jun, 1823  | George Hancock Jr. (son)  | to  | William Langhorne
1833  | William Langhorne  | to  | George P. Tayloe
Dec 23, 1890  | George P. Tayloe  | to  | M.M. Rogers
Dec 24, 1891  | M.M. Rogers  | to  | Virginia T. Rogers
Feb 8, 1937  | Tayloe, Rogers, et al.  | to  | City of Roanoke VA
Nov 22, 2011  | City of Roanoke VA  | to  | Scott and Ascension Horchler

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
3. ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Buena Vista" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

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