Category: Virginia Historical Homes

This building is constructed of materials from the ancient Priory of the Holy Sepulchre at Warwick, England, popularly known through the centuries as The Priory. The original structure was built in 1125, by the first Earl of Warwick. Following the dissolution of the monasteries it was rebuilt as a residence by Thomas Hawkins, and completed […]

Four thousand miles from its original site on the bank of the Irwell, in Lancashire, England, stands historic Agecroft Hall, one of the most distinguished relics of mediaeval England. This ancestral seat of the Langley family, who were a branch of the royal Plantagenets, is a typical wood and plaster mansion in the architecture prevalent […]

The Carlyle House was built in 1745 by John Carlyle of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, who came to Virginia in 1740. He was appointed as commissary of the Virginia forces during the French and Indian War. The mansion is situated on North Fairfax Street between Cameron and King Streets, and is surrounded by the Wagner Building. The […]

Reveille is one of the oldest houses in or about Richmond. It is situated on the Cary Street Road near the city limits. Although there are no records to show the exact date of its erection, as early as 1791 it was known as the Old Brick House Tract. According to tradition it got its […]

The Confederate Memorial Institute in Richmond, also called the Battle Abbey, had its inception in 1896, when the late Charles Broadway Rouss, a gallant soldier of the Army of Northern Virginia and later a successful man of affairs in New York City, donated $100,000 toward the erection of a Confederate memorial building on condition that […]

One of the most beautiful as well as historic cemeteries in the nation is Hollywood, situated on the north bank of the James River and within the corporate limits of Richmond. Its sleeping inhabitants number over forty-four thousand, of which 18,701 represent those soldiers of the Confederacy who were killed in the battles around Richmond […]

To the Virginia traveller in the quiet country neighbor-hoods of England there are no objects more appealing than the ancient parish churches, rising above the foliage of immemorial trees, and surrounded by the moss-covered tomb-stones of dead generations. They speak to him of a far-off age and they also recall his own era in the […]

Many spots in Richmond bear the magic imprint of Edgar Allan Poe. We can visit the site of the theatre where his young, tragic mother trod the boards; of the hovel where she died in the arms of a kindly milliner; of the early home of the Allans where he spent his boyhood; their later […]

The Eyptian Building of the Medical College of Virginia, located at Marshall and College Streets, is one of a large group of college and hospital buildings a short distance north and east of the Capitol Square. This building, completed in 1845, is regarded as the finest example of Egyptian architecture in America. It was designed […]

Shockoe Burying Ground is replete in interest because of its antiquity and of the many illustrious early Virginians who rest within its walls. The original plot was bought by the city in 1797, and additional acreage acquired in 1832 and 1850, when it was described as “city poor house, hospital, powder magazine, and new burying […]