Virginia House is a Tudor Revival mansion at 4301 Sulgrave Road in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, overlooking the James River. The diplomat Alexander W. Weddell and his wife Virginia built it in 1925 using materials salvaged from the 16th-century Priory House in Warwickshire, England, which were shipped to Virginia and reassembled, along with architectural elements drawn from other English manor houses including Sulgrave Manor and Wormleighton Manor; the house was finished just months before the stock market crash of 1929. It includes a great hall, a dining room with a Portland stone fireplace, a second-floor library with a hidden passage, ten bathrooms, and 8.8 acres of gardens laid out by the landscape architect Charles Gillette. After the Weddells died in a train accident in 1948, the house became the permanent headquarters of the Virginia Historical Society, which still operates it as a house museum largely preserved as it was during their occupancy. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountRichmond, United States 2 Completed Year Classification
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Virginia House is a manor house on a hillside overlooking the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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Alexander W. Weddell, a wealthy American diplomat and his wife Virginia Chase Steedman, however, offered a lump sum of £3,500 for the entire remaining structure and secured a deal before the auction was held.
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Virginia House is a manor house on a hillside overlooking the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.
The house was constructed from the materials of the 16th-century Priory House, Warwick in Warwickshire, England, and shipped over and reassembled, completed several months before the stock market crash of 1929. Virginia House is in the Tudor architectura
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Virginia House is a manor house on a hillside overlooking the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.
The house was constructed from the materials of the 16th-century Priory House, Warwick in Warwickshire, England, and shipped over and reassembled, completed several months before the stock market crash of 1929. Virginia House is in the Tudor architectura
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Infobox: architecture
Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Flemish
In Style: Tudor Revival Architecture, Infobox: architecture
Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Flemish
Uses Element: Stone, Interior
The dining room was furnished with oak bought later from Redbourn Manor in Hertfordshire and has an imposing Portland stone fireplace positioned midway in the room.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 374439): Richmond, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 374439): Richmond, United States
Wikidata item Q2527772, property P131/P17 (location): Richmond, United States
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