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Photograph courtesy of Scenic America: Deborah L. Myerson
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Located in Warrenton,
Monterosa-Neptune Lodge was the main residence of William ("Extra
Billy") Smith, two-term governor of Virginia (1846-49 and 1864-65).
Smith also served in the Senate of Virginia, the U.S. House of Representatives,
the Confederate House of Representatives, and as a Major General in the
Confederate Army. Early in his career, Smith ran the longest mail route
in the nation and was dubbed "Extra Billy" by a U.S. Senator during a
Congressional investigation of waste in Federal spending, which focused,
in part, on the U.S. Postal Service. Sharing the site with Smith's two-and-a-half
story brick house are three outbuildings: an extraordinary Italianate
brick stable built in 1847, a brick smokehouse and a two-story dwelling
that dates from the late 19th century
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19th-century stagecoach stables
Photograph courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Archives
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known as the Office. James K. Maddux, a later owner and a leader in the
Warrenton Hunt, remodeled Smith's Italianate dwelling in the Colonial
Revival taste, adding the portico. He also changed the name to Neptune
Lodge.
Monterosa is located at 343 Culpeper St., in Warrenton. It is a
private residence and is not open to the public.
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