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ogy group in San Francisco ��� and had three beautiful young children. They were happily ensconced in Hillsborough, but a weekend wouldn���t go by without their looking through the real estate adverts in the Times and WSJ. In 2002, they saw a couple of lines regarding a ���Bottomley House��� with Blue Ridge views. Chuck was on a plane in 48 hours. It took some negotiating but it was ultimately theirs. William Lawrence Bottomley was a New York architect who held sway in the 20���s and 30���s, designing both in the City and on Long Island. Bottomley never operated at the scale of McKim, Mead and White, but he was responsible for some beautiful Georgian work. He designed River House on the East River, the best riverside apartment block I know of in Manhattan. Through his society network, he became THE architect of Virginia, designing country estates around Middleburg, and just about all of the important homes in Richmond. He directed the design of Windsor Farms, the finest neighborhood in that city with a masterplan better than any ever done in the south. In Richmond parlance, if it is a ���Bottomley���, it is the absolute gold standard. In the late 20���s, Bottomley designed a cache of homes around a country railroad stop: Greenwood, Virginia. Blue Ridge Farm was the old anchor of the community and Bottomley transformed that home to be a true Gentleman���s country house seat. We devoted months to historical research of this house, and quite frankly, structural research to keep it all from falling down. The mansard roof had over the years come apart and was probably one owner away from collapse. During that HYLAND