Virginia House
A handsomely crafted expression of the American Country Place Era, Virginia House symbolizes the predilection of the Commonwealth’s upper classes for identifying themselves with their English heritage. The estate, located […]
Taylor Farm
Surrounded by a residential development in suburban south Richmond, the Taylor Farm forms a time capsule illustrating a once-typical rural homestead. Owned by the Aubrey Taylor family since 1917, the […]
St. John’s Church Historic District
Popularly known as Church Hill, the restored neighborhood surrounding the colonial St. John’s Episcopal Church that comprised the St. John’s Church Historic District contains an assemblage of 19th-century domestic architecture […]
Monument Avenue Historic District
The Monument Avenue Historic District is a 14-block section of Monument Avenue and West Franklin Street. Proposed in 1887 to provide an appropriate setting for a major monument to Robert […]
Maymont
The eclectic tastes of the late Victorian era in architecture, interior decoration, art collecting, and gardening are lavishly displayed at Maymont, the suburban estate created by Richmond philanthropist Maj. James […]
Linden Row
The British concept of connected town houses, or a terrace, is effectively interpreted in red brick and crisp wooden trim on Linden Row, a block of architecturally unified dwellings in […]
Hollywood Cemetery
Named for its stand of holly trees, Hollywood Cemetery was laid out in 1848 by John Notman, a Scottish architect who settled in Philadelphia and became a pioneer in the […]
Windsor
Completed in 1862 for Samuel Pannill Wilson, an ardent secessionist who raised troops for the Confederacy, Windsor’s Italianate mansion and collection of outbuildings form the last of the elaborate antebellum […]
Dan’s Hill
The main residence of the Dan River plantation of Dan’s Hill is one of the several stately brick dwellings erected during the early 19th century, the region’s period of ascendancy. […]
Mountain View
Virginia’s southern Piedmont experienced significant agricultural prosperity between 1800 and the Civil War. Evidence of its wealth can be seen in a group of large houses that formed the nuclei […]
