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Goldney Hall The canal and Gothic tower. A folly, the tower is an extravagant example of an engine house for a water well pump, supplying the canal, fountain and grotto.. The Goldney family's influence in Bristol can be traced to 1637, when Thomas Goldney was sent by his father to Bristol from Chippenham in Wiltshire, to serve as an apprentice for seven years.
The house was later owned by other wealthy Bristol families, the Wills and the Frys; among them Lewis Fry (1832–1921) who was a member of the prominent Bristol Fry Family and became a Liberal MP and the first chairman of the University of Bristol University Council.
Location of Bristol in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Bristol, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
The main hall was erected between 1927 and 1932 [10] as a women's hall of residence in the grounds of its present annex Manor House, from which the Hall takes its name. [ 10 ] The main building houses around 150 students, with music room, library, common room, bar, and computer room, all of which are accessible to all of the hall's residents.
It is open to the public as a branch of Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. [11] Other manor houses include the 18th century Kings Weston House [12] and Goldney Hall where the highly decorated Grotto dates from 1739. [13] Commercial buildings such as paired Exchange [14] and Old Post Office [15] from the 1740s are also included in the list.
The Solar Hill Historic District encompasses an architecturally significant early 20th century residential neighborhood near the center of Bristol, Virginia.The district covers an area of about 27 acres (11 ha), bounded on the north by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad and Scott Street, on the west by West Street, on the east by Johnson Street, and on the south by Cumberland Street.
The “full inferno” spread to other buildings and the main hall collapsed shortly after 2 a.m., according to News Channel 11. The former Virginia Intermont College campus went up in flames on ...
Goldney Hall; Sir Henry Goldney, 4th Baronet; J. John Goldney This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at 21:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...