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Ionic Pilasters- A Fruitful Intersection of Craft and Architecture at Veritas...
Veritas School was founded in 1998 to restore a vision of classical education in Richmond Virginia. In 2016, the school acquired the consistently classically designed campus of the former Presbyterian...
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Richmond's Laburnum House
LLaburnum HouseArchitectural FormThe house at Laburnum is the largest and most elaborate house on Richmond’s north side. The house has the massing and solidity of a French town house “hotel” or villa....
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BASIC BUILDINGS ...The division of dwelling place and working place was no recognized feature of the social structure of the towns which our ancestors inhabited. The journey to work, the lonely lodger...
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Pleasure Gardens: Escaping the Heat in Summertime Richmond
“A public pleasure garden was a privately-owned ornamental ground or piece of land, open to the public as a resort or amusement area, and operated as a business. In privately-owned public gardens, man...
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Exploring the Classical Garden at Richmond's Maymont Estate
The principal meaning of the gardens at Maymont, as understood by classically educated people like James Dooley, was that mankind was placed in the world to manage and organize otherwise chaotic...
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Villas on the Hill: Richmond's Richard Adams and Adams-Taylor Houses
Richmond Hill, Richmond's ecumenical retreat center, occupies a spectacular site on the forward edge of the city's Church Hill neighborhood, overlooking the downtown to the west and...
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Emancipation Monument: A Proposal
As is well known, Richmond has been the scene of an extended conversation- sometimes extreme in its terms- about the city's monuments, particularly those placed along Monument Avenue, the city's...
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Two Public Places Renewed
We here at Urbanismo have been fortunate to work on the designs for two of Richmond's most venerable public places, Monroe Park and the square that was historically occupied by the Richmond City (later...
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Richmond's Civic Markers III: Fountains as a symbol of the Civic Good
"Consuls, emperors, and popes, the great men of every age, have found no better way of immortalizing their memories than by the shifting, indestructible, ever new, yet unchanging, upgush and...
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HOTELS OF RICHMOND
The Union Hotel, Main at Nineteenth streets, built in 1817 to the designs of Otis Manson.This is the second part of a series on the Taverns and Hotels of Richmond. The first part is found here. The...
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TAVERNS OF RICHMOND
An artist’s reconstruction of the Swan Tavern in its late eighteenth-century heyday.The demand on the part of travelers and visitors for food and overnight lodging has usually been met by the...
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Richmond's Mason's Hall
From The History of Mason's Hall, 1887“The Masonic Hall deserves to be mentioned among the “ancient and honorable” edifices, though of comparatively of modern date. Its proportions are creditable to...
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Richmond's Westwood Tract- background information for a nighborhood under...
TThe 34-acre Westwood Tract has been a valuable civic amenity in the Sherwood Park, Laburnum Park, and Ginter Park neighborhoods. The Union Theological Seminary acquired it from 1901 to 1906 for...
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The Richmond Almhouse and Hospital: Early Provisions for the Poor and Infirm
Virginia, like other jurisdictions operating under British-derived legal systems, had from an early date a locally-based system for caring for those who could not care for themselves. The church was...
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Richmond Theater- Part III- Vaudeville to Cinema- 1920-1940
This is the final part of a three-part overview of theater and theater architecture in Richmond. Part One can be found here and Part Two can be found here.The “motion picture palace” has its roots in...
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Richmond Theater II- Diversification in New-South Richmond: 1870 to 1920
The principal venue for drama in the post-Civil War city, the Richmond Theatre, was augmented in the 1870s by the cheaply-built, tabernacle-shaped Mozart Hall. Academy of Music, which was designed for...
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Richmond Theater Part One- "An Edifice Devoted to the Tragic and Comic...
The ‘old Theatre near the Capital’…was so far old, that the walls were well browned by time, and the shutters to the windows of a pleasant neutral tint between rust and dust colored… Within, the...
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Richmond, Virginia's City Docks: Antebellum Gateway to the City's Commerce
Richmond's City Docks, completed between 1816 and 1819, were a significant feat of engineering that provided the city with a large body of quiet water unaffected by tides, high water, and most storms,...
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Paths to Tradtional Architecture
We were pleased to find ourselves in company with some of our favorite architects, urbanists, and craftsmen this month, with the publication the month of an excellent set of profiles in Traditional...
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The Location of Richmond’s first African-American Burial Ground.
The question of the location and boundaries of the Richmond's historic first African-American Burial Ground has generated a series of conflicting reports, amplified by the undoubted sensitivity of the...
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