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1925–1927, Ernest Flagg. 6300, 6302, and 6331 Ridgeway Rd. 6426 Roselawn Rd. (south on Roselawn Rd. from Towana Rd.)
  • Residences (Pierre Courtois)

These four modest homes of rock-faced granite were designed by Ernest Flagg, a BeauxArts–trained New York architect, the designer of such landmark buildings as the Scribner Building in New York City, the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and a number of major structures at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Toward the end of his career Flagg advocated the idea that every American should live in a stone house. In 1922 he published a book, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction. These four Flagg-designed residences near the University of Richmond campus were built by a Richmond developer, and each reflects Flagg's interest in creating an original American domestic style by melding certain aspects of English and French vernacular architecture with early American architectural features.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Citation

Richard Guy Wilson et al., "Residences", [Richmond, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-RI340.

Print Source

Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 280-280.

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