Home of President James Monroe
Ash Lawn's site was selected by his dear friend, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson's Monticello is only a couple miles away.
The white part of this humble structure is the original Ashlawn. The larger tan building on the left was added on in the late 1800's.

This is from the Ash Lawn-Highland website: "Ash Lawn-Highland is an historic house museum, 535-acre working farm, and performing arts site in Albermarle County, Virginia. President James Monroe and his wife, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe of New York, owned Ash Lawn-Highland from 1793 to 1826 and made it their official residence from 1799 to 1823. After the Monroes' death, the name of their farm was changed from "Highland" to "Ash Lawn"; today both names are used..."
It's been open to the public since 1931, bequeathed to the College of William and Mary by owner Jay Winton's wife, Helen Lambert Johns upon his death in 1974.