RICHMOND,VA...CONTINUED...
The lovely home in the pictures is Maymont House. Unfortunately, we got there just as the last tour of the home was being conducted. However, we were allowed to roam the Gardens for a while and watch as preparations were being made for a wedding that was to take place that very evening....The Three Graces statue is from the gardens there. The last photograph was taken from Monument Avenue and is of Stonewall Jackson...We were fortunate to get this one seeing that we had to dodge oncoming traffic......

Maymont House information....
In 1886, James and Sallie Dooley acquired farmland on the banks of the James River, where they planned to build a new home. Their architect, Edgerton Stewart Rogers (1860-1901), born and educated in Rome, combined the Romanesque Revival style with the picturesque Queen Anne for the Dooley residence. By 1893, the Dooleys were living in their 12,000 square-foot, 33-room home, which they named “May Mont,” a name which combines Mrs. Dooley’s maiden name and the Italian word for hill.

Among historic house museums, Maymont House is rare in that no intervening families or adaptive conversions separate us from the original owner’s 32-year occupancy. Despite the fact that no architectural drawings or other early records of its construction and design have survived, its physical integrity, study and research provide a reliable record. Within six months of Mrs. Dooley’s death in 1925, the mansion was opened to the public as a museum. The interiors and a large original collection remained relatively untouched until the beginning of the restoration in 1970. Thus today, Maymont House is a well-preserved document of Gilded Age design and the taste of well-educated, cosmopolitan millionaires.