Register of Historical Places, along with slave quarter
ruins and a slave and family cemetery dating back to
the 1700s. The farm was officially established between
1747 and 1760 with a series of land patents granted to
Benjamin Brown and passed down though generations
of the Brown family. In 1829, William T. Brown inherited
the land from his father and began construction of the
original main residence. Brown lived in the two and one
half story Greek Revival house and farmed the land of
Mount Fair with about thirty slaves until his death.
In 1930 the land and buildings became the home of
Edmund S. Campbell, the first head of the School of
Architecture at the University of Virginia. The residence
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