Blandwood Mansion and Gardens
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Blandwood Mansion, originally built as a four room Federal style farmhouse in 1795, is the restored home of two-term North Carolina governor John Motley Morehead (1841-1844) in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
Blandwood had two additions. The first in 1822 expanded the farmhouse from four to six rooms with Federal architecture period details. The second addition was extensive and designed in 1844 by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis. This addition more than doubled the square footage of the house within a "Tuscan Villa" style wing. The A.J. Davis addition makes Blandwood the oldest standing example of Tuscan Villa (a subtype of Italianate architecture in the United States. The grounds of Blandwood were influenced by landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing, who used an illustration of Blandwood in his publications to depict appropriate landscaping.
The building was preserved as a museum in 1966, and recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 1988. It is owned by the John Motley Morehead Commission as a permanent memorial to the progressive Governor Morehead, and it is managed by Preservation Greensboro Incorporated.
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