Swannanoa (mansion)
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Swannanoa is an Italian Renaissance Revival villa built in 1912 by millionaire and philanthropist James H. Dooley above Rockfish Gap on the border of northern Nelson County and Augusta County, Virgini
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Swannanoa as it is today.
View of the front entrance of Swannanoa.
North side view.
Walter Russell
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Walter Bowman Russell was an American impressionist painter, sculptor, property developer, and author. Russell wrote extensively on topics relating to science, but his ideas did not gain much attentio
Swannanoa (mansion)
…purchased it with a group of Charlottesville business men and formed Skyline Swannanoa, Inc. in 1944. In 1948 Swannanoa was leased for 50 years to Walter Russell for his University of Science and Philosophy. When the lease ended in 1998 James Fillmore Dulaney and his wife, Sandi Dulaney lived at Swannanoa…
Russell in 1904