This Beautiful House in Virginia’s Horse Nation Is the Excellent Fall Getaway

Some fall getaways are about leaf peeping, others about pumpkin patch scouting—however this season within the foothills of Virginia, design is definitely the primary attraction. For a restricted time, the 2025 Southern Dwelling Concept Home in Keswick—a horse-country hamlet dotted with stylish vineyards simply outdoors of Charlottesville, Virginia—is welcoming design lovers wanting to make a weekend of it.

Southern Dwelling’s 4,500-square-foot, four-bedroom residence, created by Rosney Co. Architects with interiors by famend designer Charlotte Moss, blends basic particulars with fashionable touches and anchors the coveted Keswick Property group. It’s a really perfect handle for vacationers, given its proximity to the not too long ago reimagined Keswick Corridor, a bucolic Historic Lodges of America inductee that sits simply down the highway. With one in all Virginia’s most notable collections of regional artwork at its core, the resort was reinvented three years in the past as a design haven by house owners Molly and Robert Hardie, who additionally oversee Nashville’s Hermitage Lodge. For guests wanting to stay—even briefly—contained in the pages of a favourite journal, central Virginia is autumn’s final ornamental arts vacation spot.

“This space actually represents one of the best of Virginia,” says Sid Evans, editor in chief of Southern Dwelling. “There’s a lot historical past in Charlottesville from a design perspective.”

Now marking its thirty sixth 12 months, the Concept Home franchise goals to showcase not simply aspirational decor, but additionally locations that persons are wanting to expertise. “It solely takes so lengthy to tour a home, so it’s good to have a number of different issues to do within the space,” Evans says. “Charlottesville has that in spades—vineyards, museums, buying.”

For Moss, trying to Keswick and Charlottesville for inspiration got here naturally. “Southerners are house-proud folks,” she says, and provides that it is a sentiment woven into the material of the area since its earliest days. “Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents, with houses that stand as necessary historic landmarks.”

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, for instance, is only a 13-minute drive from the Concept Home and Keswick Corridor. “There’s a legacy of design and structure right here that resonates on so many ranges,” she says.

Based on Hardie, the challenge’s developer, the Concept Home owes its magnetism to Albemarle County’s distinctive vernacular—seen in its two grand porches, octagonal entryway, and grounds planted with native species, a alternative that echoes her personal panorama selections at Keswick Corridor. A push-pin map within the Concept Home’s storage tells the story—its floor dotted with markers from vacationers who’ve journeyed from throughout the nation to see it for themselves.

Final 12 months’s Concept Home at Kiawah River in South Carolina welcomed greater than 17,000 guests from all 50 states. Evans expects an identical turnout on the Keswick property this 12 months—particularly come November, when the Southern Dwelling workforce turns up the appeal, bedecking the house in magazine-cover-worthy vacation decor. “It’s a nice girlfriend getaway or mother-daughter journey,” Evans says.

Tickets to the Southern Dwelling Concept Home can be found at keswick.com.