Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 146
ut. THE VAN LEW HOUSE Also on Church Hill, and not far away from St. Johns,was the Van Lew House,* best known of late years as thehome of the famous Miss Van Lew. It was perhapsthe stateliest of the Richmond mansions of its time. Cer-tainly it adorned the most charming site in the city. It 1 Moore,… … RICHMOND AND THE UPPER JAMES 121 was built when ample grounds and roomy porticoes over-looking picturesque falling gardens were the fashion,and it was situated in a section which became unfashionablebefore the days of cutting up handsome grounds intotwenty-foot building lots. And so the old garden…
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