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The site for the museum was chosen on Richmond's Boulevard, near the corner of a contiguous six-block tract of land used as a veterans' home for Confederate soldiers. Additional services were provided to their wives and daughters. [9] The main building of the VMFA was designed by Peebles and Ferguson Architects of Norfolk.
Noland was born in 1865 in Hanover County, Virginia. [1] [2]Noland was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. [2] From 1897 to 1917, he was a partner in Noland and Baskervill, an architectural firm he co-founded with electrical engineer Henry Baskervill, and the two men built houses on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
Charles Thaddeus Russell (June 19, 1875 – August 24, 1952) was an American architect who was one of the first two licensed African American architects in Virginia. He was the first to be licensed in Richmond, Virginia and he designed buildings on what became known as the "Black Wall Street of America".
Marcellus E. Wright was born on April 8, 1881, in Hanover County, Virginia, the son of Anthony Westley Wright and Isabella Wright (née Granger).His father was a Confederate veteran who saw military service during the American Civil War at the Battle of Gaines's Mill.
The Diamond is a baseball stadium located in Richmond, Virginia, USA, on Arthur Ashe Boulevard. It is the home of Richmond Flying Squirrels of the Eastern League and the Virginia Commonwealth University baseball team. From 1985 to 2008, it was the home of the Richmond Braves, the Triple-A minor league baseball affiliate of the Atlanta Braves ...
Charles Freeman Gillette (March 14, 1886 – March 30, 1969) was a prominent landscape architect in the upper South who specialized in the creation of grounds supporting Colonial Revival architecture, particularly in Richmond, Virginia.
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Monumental Church is a former Episcopal church at 1224 E. Broad Street between N. 12th and College streets in Richmond, Virginia.Designed by architect Robert Mills, it is one of America's earliest and most distinctive Greek Revival churches.