Home for Confederate Women
This is the former "Home for Needy Confederate Women" located behind the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on Shepard Street in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1932 on a design by architect Merrill Lee on a copy of the plans of the White House in Washington, DC.
In 1898, Virginia charted a home for destitute widows of Confederate soldiers. That original structure burned and was replaced by this building. It was occupied continuously by widows or daughters of soldiers until, in 1989, the board of the home decided to close and the remaining seven residents went to live in their own wing of a nursing home.
The building looks very much like a scale version of the White House, down to the wings and porticos.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts owns the building and uses it for classrooms.
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