Col Alto

{{short description|Historic house in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Col Alto

| nrhp_type =

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = September 20, 1988{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=19 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archive-date=21 September 2013|url-status=dead}}

| designated_other1_number = 117-0003

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Col Alto, Lexington, VA - front view.jpg

| caption = Col Alto, August 2017

| location = Nelson and Spottswood Dr., Lexington, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|37|46|49|N|79|26|21|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1827}}

| architect = William Lawrence Bottomley

| architecture = Classical Revival, Georgian

| added = November 19, 1990

| area = {{convert|7|acre}}

| refnum = 89001925{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Col Alto is a historic home located at Lexington, Virginia. The original section was built about 1827, and is a two-story, double-pile, three-bay, Georgian style brick dwelling with a hipped roof. In the 1930s, the house was remodeled, enlarged, and modernized by architect William Lawrence Bottomley. Bottomley added the distinctive Palladian style veranda. Also on the property are a contributing barn and log cabin. Col Alto was the home of Congressman James McDowell (1795-1851), for whom the house was built, and Congressman Henry St. George Tucker III (1853-1932).{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lexington/117-0003_Col_Alto_1990_Final_Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Col Alto |author=Calder Loth and John Salmon|date=August 1988|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lexington/ColAlto_photo.htm Accompanying photo]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It is now operating as a Hampton Inn and Suites by Hilton.

File:Col Alto, Lexington, VA - veranda at dawn.jpg|Veranda of Col Alto at dawn

File:Col Alto, Lexington, VA - cabin.jpg|Log cabin built in the mid-1700s at Col Alto