“The fifty-room brick Nydrie on Green Mountain was perhaps the grandest Victorian house in Piedmont. It was probably designed by architect D. Wiley Anderson in 1898 for Harry Douglas Forsyth of New Orleans, who had made a fortune in sugar and banking. Patterned after a Scottish baronial castle, the main dwelling was 68 x 175 feet with brownstone trim and slate roof. Its 22-by-61-foot two-story entrance hall served as a ballroom, above which was a music gallery. Other features included a walnut library, drawing room, dining room, greenhouse with a swimming pool, quartered-oak staircase, an ash billiard room, and window-label molds. Water tanks were enclosed in castellated towers. In 1928 the house passed to the Van Clief family and was renovated by carpenter Ernest Hoover from designs by Anderson, his father-in-law. Nydrie was razed in 1978.”

Source: The Architecture of Jefferson County: Charlottesville and Albemarle County