I have toured the Richmond area from Fredericksburg to St. Petersburg looking at 18th & 19th Century residential homes many times. In Richmond itself that includes downtown, West Richmond, and Monument Ave. These include plantation homes along the James River, but not Williamsburg, that is a 1920’s reconstruction by the Rockefeller Foundation. I have another album just of Williamsburg. I also have visited Abingdon, Alexandria, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Norfolk, and Orange Co. in Virginia. In Maryland, I visited Annapolis and Chesterton. I lived on the Severn River north of Annapolis before the state capital became too crowded to be enjoyable.

I have selected a few representative houses of different periods just from the Richmond area and put them into a collection. My photos from the other areas are mixed in with contemporary photos. This was a significant period of architecture in Colonial and Anti-Bellum structures in America. Although most of Richmond burned in the Civil War, some buildings survived and/or were reconstructed.

If you enjoy house and garden tours, as I do, I hope you will find these interesting. Some tours were part of the annual Virginia Garden Week tours sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia, and I toured others individually.

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