HOSTED BY THREE CHOPT, BOXWOOD AND JAMES RIVER GARDEN CLUBS AND THE TUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTON Richmond – Monument Avenue 167

TICKET INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING 6 PRIVATE GARDENS:

2037 Monument Avenue 2319 Monument Avenue Built in 1910, this four-story Southern-style Designed by Clifton Lee Jr., brother of palazzo was sold in 1959 to the Women’s Di- Duncan Lee, this Spanish Colonial home vision of the United Methodist Church to was built in 1925. The front lawn features house women in need. The home’s current a morning garden and a magnolia espalier owners restored the house in 2000. The res- climbing the façade of the house. Enter idence, designed by architect John the walled back garden through an iron Kevin Peebles, features glazed green roof gate to outdoor living spaces hardscaped tiles, Arts and Crafts and Beaux Arts detail- in limestone pavers and shaded by tower- ing and a wave motif in the limestone trim. ing twin oak trees. Features include fatsia, Enter the side yard through a wrought iron Japanese maple, yew, a black bamboo pri- gate located along a path bordered by aza- vacy screen, a statuary fountain pouring

Photos courtesy of Jane and Don Cowles leas. Visitors will be charmed by a manicured into a tranquility pool and garden vignettes side garden replete with tulips and irises. The throughout. Christy and Michael Lantz, owners Richmond spacious back garden features a Doric-col- umned pergola, a walled fountain, a grid of 2710 Monument Avenue MONUMENT AVENUE Yoshino cherry trees, small magnolias and Designed by D. Wiley Anderson, this clas- pyracantha espaliered along a fence. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021, 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M. Tillie and Larry Shifflett, owners sical home was built for Rosalie and Wil- TICKETS AVAILABLE WITH TIMED ENTRANCES liam Schwarzchild in 1914. It served as a Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997, Monument Avenue is a broad urban 2300 Monument Avenue senior center for 50 years before the cur- thoroughfare featuring a grassy median lined with stately oaks and sugar maples. Between 1900 rent owners purchased the property and and 1925, development along this expansive corridor flourished as architecturally significant (enter off Strawberry Street) meticulously restored the residence and its mansions, townhomes, and churches were erected by wealthy citizens and speculative builders. A small parterre, structured with box- grounds and reimagined the entire back Behind these grand façades, private, walled gardens provided fresh air, respite, and social wood, yew and mazus and filled with sea- half of the house. The home, rich in peri- recreation for homeowners and continue to delight with seasonal blooms, specimen trees, sonal annuals, welcomes visitors to the od and architectural details, is now signifi- fountains, and follies. Today, its beauty and proximity to downtown Richmond and cultural front of this Colonial Revival house de- cantly more “green” and sustainable. All venues make it popular with locals and tourists alike. Named for the confederate statues that formerly signed by Albert Huntt in 1909. The grand mechanical, plumbing and electrical sys- punctuated its skyline, Monument Avenue’s memorials are in the process of removal as the and historic façade is distinguished by a tems are new and state-of-the-art. There community strives to reconcile its past. Tour-goers will have the opportunity to visit private Doric entrance portico, a modillion cor- are five geothermal wells buried onsite; the garden gems on this walking tour, explore the neighborhood’s unique pocket parks and nice, three gabled dormers and a roof-top house now has a carbon footprint 1/10 of flowering alleyways, and experience the epicenter of profound social change in Virginia. Chippendale balustrade. In the enclosed the original. The new double-story back rear pocket garden, a curved bluestone porch with a mosaic tile floor overlooks a terrace is bordered by boxwood, yew, hos- diamond-patterned terrace bordered by tas, pachysandra, hellebores, climbing hy- beds of annuals and lacy perennials in cus- TOUR CO-CHAIRS SPECIAL ACTIVITIES • Mary Anne Burke, Laura Whisnand • Explore the VMFA Gardens and enjoy drangea and a Japanese maple, creating a tom brick planters. A bronze fountain is [email protected] the daffodil and hellebore collections, urban leafy oasis. Don’t miss the high-top tucked among ferns, camellias and roses. • @historicgardenweekrva annual flower beds, sculpture and more. table on the back porch made by the own- Daphne and crepe myrtle espaliers climb • Historic Garden Week RVA Garden volunteers available for questions ers from an original door found in the the rear brick wall of the house. • VMFA self-guided tour of selected basement. Kelli and Derek Lewis, owners Julie and Paul Weissend, owners TOUR HEADQUARTERS botanical works of art and design. • Robinson House at the Virginia Information available at tour headquarters Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and at VMFA Guest Services 200 N. Boulevard • The Branch Museum of Architecture and TICKETS Design at 2501 Monument Avenue • $40 pp • Enjoy a self-guided tour of the Fan • Sold online and in advance only, with neighborhood pocket parks and timed entrances, at VAGardenWeek.org blooming alleyways. Map available at • No day of ticket sales tour headquarters • Kent-Valentine House at 12 East Franklin FACILITIES Street. Headquarters of the Garden Club • Available at Tour Headquarters of Virginia and Historic Garden Week in • The Branch Museum of Architecture & Design Virginia will be open to the public 10 a.m. to noon on Friday, April 23rd for PARKING Historic Garden Week. • VMFA — entrances on N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. and N. Sheppard Street – fee waived for HGW guests IMPORTANT • Lot adjacent to the Branch Museum Begin tour at any garden. In keeping with • On-street parking the GCV’s efforts to reduce plastic waste, please bring your own reusable drink LUNCH AT THE VMFA container. • The Best Café, no reservations required. NEW TO HISTORIC GARDEN WEEK! Pick up a picnic for indoor or patio dining First time a property has been featured • Amuse, reservations required (804) 340-1580 HOSTED BY THREE CHOPT, BOXWOOD AND JAMES RIVER GARDEN CLUBS AND THE TUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTON Richmond – Monument Avenue 169

3142 Monument Avenue Kent-Valentine House (enter off Cleveland Street) 12 East Franklin St. This Georgian brick house designed by One of the most architecturally signifcant Duncan Lee in 1922 is a study in refined, and visually prominent antebellum mansions classical detailing. A 1922 covenant se- in downtown Richmond was designed in cured significant setback, elevation and 1845 by Isaiah Rogers, a noted New England terraces of the houses on the north side of architect, for Mr. and Mrs. Horace Kent. It is this block. The rear courtyard is formal in the only remaining residential structure its classic design with a brick terrace cen- known to have been designed by this leader tered around a pool, a covered loggia with of the Greek Revival movement. Modifed an outdoor fireplace, a Charles Gillette de- and enlarged by Mr. and Mrs. Granville Gray signed koi pond and a hedge row of Euro- Valentine in 1904, this stately mansion pean Hornbeams. Ivy covers the walls, occupies a quarter-block of historic Franklin providing a backdrop for a row of crepe Street. The building has been preserved and myrtles, which are bordered in front by a the grounds landscaped by the Garden Club sculpted boxwood hedge. William Mills of Virginia. Headquarters of the Garden Club Crosby and William C. Hall, owners. of Virginia and Historic Garden Week in Virginia since 1971. gcvirginia.org 3200 Monument Avenue Maymont With its rounded cypress-plank door, stuc- 2201 Shields Lake Dr. co exterior and terra-cotta roof, this 1922 The grounds of this 100-acre American home, designed by Duncan Lee, is one of estate include Japanese, Italian, English and several in the Spanish Revival style found herb gardens. Overlooking the James River, on Monument Avenue. A grassy backlot the mansion is an example of the opulent until 2019, the ample outdoor space in the style of the American Gilded Age. In the late rear of the home now features a curvilinear 1990s, the Garden Club of Virginia restored travertine patio with both cushioned and the ornamental lawn surrounding the raised wall seating, a separate dining ter- mansion. It now features a shrub labyrinth, race, and a raised-bed potager garden with specimen trees and rose arbors. The Italian willow tuteur trellises for growing vegeta- Garden contains parterres and a romantic bles and flowers for cutting. Adding dimen- pergola. The Japanese Garden includes a sion are sweeps of lamb’s ear, dwarf haw- dramatic 45-foot waterfall. maymont.org thorn and caryopteris. Colleen Stevens Hewitt, owner. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. With a collection of art that spans the globe PLACES OF INTEREST and more than 5,000 years, plus a wide array of special exhibitions, the VMFA is recognized Branch Museum of Architecture as one of the top comprehensive art museums and Design in the U.S. The permanent collection includes 2501 Monument Ave. one of the nation’s fnest collections of American Housed in a Tudor-Jacobean Revival building art, Faberge, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, as designed by John Russell Pope, the architect well as acclaimed collections of English silver, of Washington, D.C.’s Thomas Jefferson Ancient art, Impressionist, Post-impressionist, Memorial, National Archives, Broad Street British sporting and Modern and Contemporary Station (now the Science Museum) and West art plus renowned African, East Asian and Wing of the National Gallery of Art, this South Asian holdings. No charge for general 27,000-square-foot residence was admission. vmfa.museum completed in 1919 and is now listed on the Virginia and National Registers of Historic The Center Places. branchmuseum.org at Historic Tredegar 500 Tredegar St. Hollywood Cemetery The nation’s frst museum to interpret the 412 South Cherry St. causes, courses, and legacies of the Civil War Designed in 1847 by noted American from Union, Confederate and African architect John Notman of Philadelphia, its American perspectives. tredegar.org paths wind through 135 acres of valley, hills, historic roses and stately trees with views overlooking the falls of the James River. It is the fnal resting place for two American presidents, six Virginia governors and two U.S. Supreme Court justices. hollywoodcemetery.org