Following my research on Richmond’s South Cathedral Place, I was assigned a topic that had led many previous researchers to dead end after dead end: a long-demolished Richmond structure attributed to our country’s first professionally trained architect and first Architect of the Capitol, B. Henry Latrobe. Latrobe could be considered an architectural historian’s ultimate celebrity [...]
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Latrobe made his presentation perspective on the "Clifton" house on this particular piece of ground just come to life. Just as he had done with previous, important presentation drawings for residential commissions such as the Pennock House or Sedgeley Villa, he depicted the owners of the home engaged in some activity, and even illustrated the [...]
New additions to the chronology are highlighted in blue. As I research George Russell Tolman, a Richmond architect transplanted from New England and once parter of Richmond's "dean of architecture" Marion J. Dommon, I am developing a chronology of his life events. Here is what I have so far: 1848, Dec 5 George Russell Tolman [...]
Spring break is past now and it seems I have been all too lax in reporting my research findings. Prior to the break I took a trip up to Washington, D.C. to visit the Library of Congress' Prints & Photographs Division, where the original Clifton drawings are preserved and housed in cold storage. My appointment [...]
Here is an 1876 map showing the Clifton Hotel (red outline) in relation to modern day. The neighboring Ballard Hotel (just to the south of the red outline on the same block) was built in 1855, closed along with the Exchange Hotel in 1896 (after suffering from new competitor The Jefferson Hotel) and demolished around [...]
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