Mirador (Greenwood, Virginia)

Mirador
Mirador, photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1926
Location7459 Mirador Farm Rd., US 250, Greenwood, Virginia
Coordinates38°2′17″N 78°45′24″W / 38.03806°N 78.75667°W / 38.03806; -78.75667
Area32 acres (13 ha)
Built1842, renovated 1920s
ArchitectWilliam Adams Delano
Architectural styleFederal, Georgian Revival
NRHP reference No.83003256
VLR No.002-0100
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 7, 1983
Designated VLRSeptember 16, 1982, June 12, 2002

Mirador is a historic home located near Greenwood, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1842 for James M. Bowen (1793–1880), and is a two-story, brick structure on a raised basement in the Federal style. It has a deck-on-hip roof capped by a Chinese Chippendale railing. The front facade features a portico with paired Tuscan order columns. The house was renovated in the 1920s by noted New York architect William Adams Delano (1874–1960), who transformed the house into a Georgian Revival mansion.

Mirador was the childhood home of Nancy Langhorne Astor, who was born in Danville, Virginia. Her father Chiswell Langhorne's finances were decimated by the American Civil War, but he later made a fortune in the tobacco business and railroads and was able to purchase Mirador. Nancy Langhorne, later Lady Astor, lived at the home from 1892 to 1897, and her sister Irene, later the wife of artist Charles Dana Gibson and a model for the Gibson Girl, also spent part of her youth at the estate.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.