Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 182
many an oldVirginia home. RICHMOND AND THE UPPER JAMES 155 In 1805 Moldavia was sold to Mr. Joseph Gallego,owner of the Gallego Mills, who occupied it for twentyyears and then sold it to Mr. John Allan, whose brilliantadopted son, Edgar Allan Poe, was then about seventeenyears old. There is a great… … ALLAN HOUSE, RICHMOND doubtedly made his home there during a good part of theyear 1826. The Allans made the beautiful interior of their housethe background for superb furniture and artistic orna-ments brought from Europe. They had the social giftsof true Richmonders, and their home was famous for…
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