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Bremo
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Original Author: John Hartwell Cocke and John Neilson
Created: ca. 1820
Medium: Photograph

Bremo

The Bremo plantation house in Fluvanna County, which dates to about 1820, is a five-section Palladian mansion designed by its owner, John Hartwell Cocke, and John Neilson, a master craftsman who worked for Thomas Jefferson.

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