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Virginia House

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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/

Facts
Building Type
House 1
Building Type
Manor 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Richmond, United States 2
Completed Year
1925 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Neoclassical Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Virginia House (Wikipedia)
Tudor Revival Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Virginia House (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Stone, Architectural Materials
Source Virginia House (Wikipedia)
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1. Virginia House (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_House, lead definition
    Virginia House is a manor house on a hillside overlooking the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1925)
    completion_date/completed = 1925
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Manor)
    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
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
    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
    architecture: Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Flemish
  • In Style: Tudor Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Flemish
  • Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Stone houses in Virginia
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2. Virginia House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 374439): Richmond, United States
Quote, 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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