Church Home for Infirm and Indigent Negroes
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Three Angels Inn (Church Home for Infirm and Indigent Negroes)
1895 hospital; c. 1892 superintendent's house. 236 Pleasant Grove Rd.
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(Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
After the Civil War, orphaned, sick, old, and penniless freedmen had little recourse to public or private aid. With her money and donations from Northern friends and the Episcopal Church, Mrs. Pattie Hicks Buford of Lawrenceville built a hospital for indigent freedmen in 1883, and consequently faced near ostracism by the white community. When it burned in 1895, she rebuilt the hospital, a two-story double-pile frame structure with a central passage. The building retains its clipped-gable slate roof and one-story hipped-roof porch running the width of the three-bay facade. Next door, she built a school and orphanage that has been demolished. To the right of the old hospital, the two-story frame superintendent's house still stands.
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