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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An excerpt from Samuel Mordecai's Richmond In By-Gone Days eloquently reminisces on the "flush times" Richmond experienced after the War of 1812, during the mid-late 18-teens, and it sounds quite familiar to what many markets across the country are recovering from today. He is quoting Washington Irving's description of speculative real estate mania from the [...]
This evening I met with T. Tyler Potterfield, author of Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape, and Gibson Worsham, Architectural Historian at 3north and author of the blog, "Urban Scale Richmond," for a tour of the Clifton site. We began with a brief overview of the Capitol hill and walked over to 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 [...]
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