Bremo Recess

Fluvanna County, Virginia

Bremo Recess is one of the few examples of Jacobean Revival architecture in the United States. It was built in the early 1800's by Gen. John Hartwell Cocke.

Bremo Recess by Fannie G. Campbell from Edith Dabney Tunis Sale, editor (compiled by The James River Garden Club), Historic Gardens of Virginia, The James River Garden Club, Richmond, VA, 1923.

Bremo Recess from Frances Archer Christian and Susanne Massie, editors, Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, Garrett and Massie, Incorporated, Richmond, VA, 1931.

For more information on Bremo Recess, see:

• Mills Lane, Architecture of the Old South: Virginia, Beehive Press

Note: the picture of Bremo Recess above is from Frances Archer Christian and Susanne Massie, editors, Homes and Gardens in Old Virginia, Garrett and Massie, Incorporated, Richmond, VA, 1931 (photograph edited by Sarah E. Mitchell).

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