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Wilton House Museum is a museum in a historic house located in Richmond, Virginia. Wilton was constructed c. 1753 by William Randolph III , son of William Randolph II , of Turkey Island . Wilton was originally the manor house on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2 ) tobacco plantation known as "World's End" located on the north bank of the James River ...
The Museum District, alternately known as West of the Boulevard, [3] is a neighborhood in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It is anchored by the contiguous six-block tract of museums along the west side of Boulevard , including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture , hence the name.
Richmond Academy of Medicine: Richmond Academy of Medicine: August 16, 1984 : 1200 E. Clay St. 154: Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Railway Car Barn: Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Railway Car Barn: May 4, 2006 : 1620 Brook Rd.
The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion (2012) Tyler-McGraw, Marie, and Gregg D. Kimball. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia (Valentine Museum, 1988) Tyler-McGraw, Marie. At the falls: Richmond, Virginia and its people (U of North Carolina Press, 1994) ISBN 978-0807844762
The Poe Museum is located at the "Old Stone House", built circa 1740 [3] [4] and cited as the oldest original residential building in Richmond. [5]It was built by Jacob Ege, [6] [7] who immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1738 and came to the James River Settlements and Col. Wm. Byrd's land grant (now known as Richmond) in the company of the family of his fiancée, Maria Dorothea ...
Designer Josh Young’s 1780 Virginia Farmhouse Is the Coziest Country Escape. Grace Haynes. September 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM. ... I didn’t want it to feel like a house museum, so I incorporated my ...
The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, non-profit organization, supported almost entirely by private contributions.
Richmond (/ ˈ r ɪ tʃ m ə n d / RITCH-mənd) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia.Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, [7] making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. [8]