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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.
Goldney Hall's gothic tower. Goldney Hall is a self-catered hall situated in Clifton. [1] The Hall has gardens and follies which include an ornamental canal, gothic tower, [2] rotunda, [3] mock Bastion and a subterranean shell-lined grotto. [4]
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 ...
Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet (25 July 1813 – 8 May 1900) [1] was a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885. He was created a baronet in May 1880. Ancestry and early life
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The neighborhood developed in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and contains primarily one- to two-story frame and brick dwellings constructed from 1868 to the 1940s. Notable buildings include the I.C. Fowler House (1868), 513 Lee Street (1882), A.W. Randolph House (c. 1890), Jean McNeil Pepper House, and Thomas Jefferson Public School ...
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.