A House of Many Histories: The Tale of the Virginia House

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Join us as we explore the Virginia House, a breathtaking combination of disassembled English Manor Houses brought together under one roof! Witness the incredible story of how this one-of-a-kind mansion was created, and the rich history it contains.
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@anteeker Год назад

I had a footstool shipped from England once and it was quite expensive. I can`t imagine what it would cost to ship, oh I don`t know, A WHOLE MANSION!!!! Great story.

@monkeygraborange Год назад

Spectacular. How sad that two such generous and forward thinking people met such a ghastly demise.

@arslongavitabrevis5136 Год назад

I do agree with you 100%, as a friend of mine says: "Life is a bitch".

@LotsofLisa Год назад

Yeah, I didn’t see that coming. Like any death, I hope it was quick and at least they were together.

@arslongavitabrevis5136 Год назад

At last, a story with a happy ending! Two observations: 1) The fact that the Weddells were able to dismantle an old historical property and shipped it back to the US speaks volumes about the corrupt nature of the British political system where "miraculously" a considerable number of MPs "changed their minds" and approved the sale and demolition of the house. 2) The Weddells had an impecable taste and a genuine love for the cultural heritage of their state. I am glad their dreams were fulfilled and the Virgina Historical Society takes care of their home. PS: The architect did a magnificent job putting together all those odd bits and creating such a beautiful house.

@here_we_go_again2571 Год назад

By the end of WW2 many of those British manor houses were falling into disrepair, being torched for insurance and by the 1970's being torn down to avoid the estate taxes. I suppose that by then the vast doweries of the Dollar Princesses had been depleted.

@marcyking461 Год назад

How delightful that the Weddells collected their treasures with the hope of sharing the history of those trinkets, plants, furnishings, whole house sections, or whatever with people yet to be born. That says a lot about the couple and their generosity. I am truly impressed with their accomplishments.

@becky4728 Год назад

I love the word “ Trinket” 💜

@bruceschneider4928 Год назад

Ken, there is yet another house in Richmond that was dismantled and shipped over from England: Agecroft Hall, a Tudor style mansion with beautiful gardens.

@williamtyre523 Год назад

A great story of two people committed to preservation and making sure that the buildings would not only survive but be accessible to the public. I visited there about 20 years ago and loved it!

@davecurda2350 Год назад

Can’t believe having that much money to buy a house disassembled,ship across the world and then rebuild. 💰💰💰

@epicnamepwns1242 Год назад

I think the Weddells have set a good example for today - while some buildings can be saved or restored in their original place and form not all can be. Salvaging and reusing what can be, large or small, is a good way to extend the life of well-made and beautiful things.

@elephantintheroom5678 Год назад

This one's beautiful, like a dream come true.

@christopherkraft1327 Год назад

The Virginia House has a fascinating history!!! I'm glad that it still stands today!!!

@cres4928 Год назад

I used to maintenance their next door neighbors pool back at my old job. Which is arguably just as crazy of a home. Had the largest acreage of any home within the city limits. Crazy that the RU-vid algorithm recommends this to me. Used to drive by here every day

@Skarfp Год назад

Fascinating, thank you!

@proudvirginian Год назад

The houses in the area around The Virginia House are all big estates. Agecroft Hall (which is also a house dismantled and transported from England and also not so exacting in it's restoration) is right behind it and equally as beautiful. The Windsor Farms neighborhood is super high end with the houses going for millions. It's like Beverly Hills of Richmond.

@mersea.714 Год назад

I never knew that Richmond had such homes! I’ll have to take a road trip soon from Virginia Beach.

@dre4011 Год назад

The neighborhood of Windsor Farms is about 102yrs old...the 2 OLDEST are Agecroft & Virginia House....as well as "Windsor" itself. .......(which was there before the neighborhood). It's too bad "BLUE SHINGLES" is all but gone since '68-'70....meanwhile across town...BROOK HILL is still standing and is inhabited by its original owners distant family.....yes Richmond....good old Richmond!👍👍...(don't worry...despite "ancient & outdated belief"...Rob is not coming around the corner on Traveller...AT ALL ANY TIME SOON OR...... ANY CENTURY TO COME!! 😝🤫😉)

@dre4011 Год назад

@@mersea.714 ...it's the STATE CAPITOL....of course we've got old houses!....hundreds of 'em...from Goochland to Varina....Mechanicsville to Petersburg....

@Laura-zy5jp Год назад

Love the color photo at the end!!Really highlights the house with the beautiful amazing colors of flowers and shrubbery around the estate. So lovely. A unique home . So sad they lost their lives in a train accident. But left a beautiful legacy for others to enjoy. 💕💕💯💯🇨🇦🇨🇦😊😊👌👌

@lisaann6965 Год назад

Fascinating! So glad they took these buildings and saved them as nearly a third of UK country manor homes were lost after the Second World War. Thank you and hello from Washington, not DC, Washington in the north of England where George Washington’s family came from. 😉🇬🇧👋

@here_we_go_again2571 Год назад

Some of those English manor houses had become very decrepit. Some were set alight for the insurance and others torn down to avoid estate taxes during the 1970s.

@marcyking461 Год назад

Virginia is full of Counties, Cities, Towns, Streets, etc. whose namesakes are derived from English Locations. I suspect the same is true of the rest of the original 13 Colonies that started the American ball bouncing up and down our Eastern Shores. It really is ashamed that mankind is so destructive when it comes to war.

@IntriguedLioness Год назад

As I scroll through the comments it's honestly odd to me to see this, from a fellow Brit no less! The fact is the nouveao riche in the US took advantage of Europe's economic despair after WW2. There is plenty of stone to quary in the US and the wealthy could have trained it's own artisans to build their own history. Absconded treasure is all I see.

@here_we_go_again2571 Год назад

@@IntriguedLioness Most rich Americans did not buy up English manor and reuse the stone from those houses. btw: After WW2, all Americans, even rich ones, were heavily taxed (until the 1960's) Some of those grand American homes (built during the late 1800's and before the invention of the income tax, 1913) were in the same state as the British manor houses, post WW2! True: An American bought the *soon to* *be torn down* (old) London Bridge. (It is now in Arizona) But the Brits were not going to reuse the stone from that bridge. Those stones would have been used as land-fill by the Brits.

@lisaann6965 Год назад

@@here_we_go_again2571 100% agree thanks, I really couldn’t have said it any better myself. Some people like to just get mad about everything….not all Brits are like them.

@stuartm6069 Год назад

My favorite was the grand staircase The room looked so warm and inviting. Also, loved the gardens.

@theresawilson2647 Год назад

I love the withdrawal room. I'm so glad that this beautiful home is still standing.

@sophisticatedswine7172 Год назад

SO GLAD THAT THE HOUSE AND CONTENTS WERE SAVED FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

@cassandraralph5906 Год назад

Delightful and yet a very Mishmash combination of different English manor houses. 😊

@BanBiofuels Год назад

Manual labor must have been dirt cheap back then.

@rowsmamak Год назад

I used to visit here back in college in the 90s. I grew up in VA and love this house. It's gorgeous.

@andrewbrendan1579 Год назад

I can see how some people would be disturbed at part of English houses or entire houses being shipped to America, but doing so has preserved so much that might have been lost and especially after World War II when many old English houses were actually blown up. The loss is appalling. I read about this in the book "No Voice From the Hall -- Early Memories of a Country House Snooper" by John Harris, 1998. Ken , this is a different kind of house and in a much different situation, but would you consider, if possible, making a video about Grey Gardens?

@ThisHouse Год назад

That is a very fair point to make, in hindsight it was probably a great decision to allow the dismantling of these manor houses. Thank you for the recommendation. I will put Grey Gardens on my list of houses to look into. Cheers!

@lmboh8585 Год назад

So many items from so many time periods. They shouldn't work together, and yet . . . they do. Amazing! Great video!

@here_we_go_again2571 Год назад

I have never heard of this place. Thank you. It appears that it would be worth visiting.

@eily_b Год назад

I am usually against selling houses, art... to other countries or even continents but *this house* was probably saved and is accessible to people who would have never had access to it in the UK. So this case is a win for me. 👍🏻

@IntriguedLioness Год назад

This is still European history.The fact that there was a cash exchange doesn't negate the fact that it took advantage of the economic struggles in Europe after WW2.

@here_we_go_again2571 Год назад

@@IntriguedLioness "Took advantage" See my other comment to you.

@marciafallon7653 Год назад

Remarkably, for all it’s grandure, the house feels cozy. I love the couches that looked worn from sitting in them for years. The dark woodwork that can look imposing in other mansions, looks enveloping in a good way here. Lovely home.

@mersea.714 Год назад

I’m excited to add this to my list of road trips this summer. I’m only an hour and a half away. Thanks for sharing!

@pmm3112 Год назад

Brilliant Ken!! 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻Bravo! This is an amazing story. 😮 I can’t imagine the cost and time it took to deconstruct, ship and reassemble these buildings and interiors, but I am happy to see that someone with the means to preserve and protect such great architecture and the artistic works of these historical hand crafted elements was accomplished and rests today in Virginia. I will have to travel and tour this magnificent home!! Thanks for this episode ❤❤❤

@AlannahRyane Год назад

Wow! Your historical houses research is very much appreciated.

@jillatherton4660 Год назад

The post-dissolution house incorporating remains of the Priory of the Holy Sepulchre and St Helen in Warwick, UK, was bought, dismantled and shipped to the USA but was lost at sea.

@chesterthawkins7510 Год назад

The library is my favorite room.

@kendranewton9071 Год назад

Love the library.

@AnnieWarbux Год назад

Wow! Fascinating! Loving the "Collective Creation" aspect. I bet their tour guides get all nackered out, with everything there is to speak to mention and point out. This whole estate is ever. so. Cool! 🙃

@rickyt3961 Год назад

fascinating! thank you

@kissingcandy1 Год назад

If you ever go to the UK warwick castle is worth a visit. what a dramatic ending to their lives. I liked the library, cosy. thanks for the garden picture.

@LJB103 Год назад

Excellent video. For some reason, when I visited Richmond, and went to this house's neighbor, Agecroft Hall (another dismantled and rebuilt English manor), Virginia House was not open.

@mitchellbarnow1709 Год назад

Hi Ken! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing piece of history for us to enjoy! You always keep me in suspense wondering if these places still exist today and for that I am grateful, but I don’t want to spoil the surprises for anyone else.

@ThisHouse Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@mitchellbarnow1709 Год назад

@@ThisHouse You bet Ken!

@ellenrose2855 Год назад

For a relatively new home, weirdly, it's also possibly the 'oldest' house in America!! I wondered why it looked so much like the stately homes I visited as a child here in the UK!

@ShirleeKnott Год назад

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@jimwiskus8862 Год назад

Beautiful home! One would think it would have been easier to have an architect measure everything out and then reproduce it in the US. That said as I have seen stated it may not have survived WWII.

@styp6478 Год назад

毎回有難う御座います🙏✨歴史の香りと高貴なるvisionが胸に染み渡る様な感覚を得られました…素晴らしい感動です。

@jefflawrentz1624 Год назад

I’ve never been, but would like to see this place. If memory serves me correctly, in 2019 Freeman’s Auctions in Philadelphia sold over 450 objects deaccessioned from the collection of this house. It’s definitely on my places to see list. Nice work, Ken!!

@jonclassical2024 Год назад

Thank Ken, I live in Raleigh, less than 200 miles from this house......and am going to visit friends soon in Richmond.....I can't wait to see what it!

@The_Smith Год назад

The library was my favourite room of course, not sure why you even bother to ask any more . . . ;)

@petetomasko7150 Год назад

Thanks for the video. I never heard of this. It’s only 4 1/2 hours away, maybe I will take a road trip.

@teresalanham2678 3 месяца назад

I live 20 mins away from Warwick town in England and I went for a 'Weird Warwick' walk and one of the things they mention is the Priory and the fact that it was shipped to Virginia. Its stunning to see built up again, thr original site is now a huge park called Priory park.

@scronx Год назад

A beautiful job on this. Maybe you'd like to do one on the parallel case of Agecroft Hall -- maybe it's too similar.

@ThisHouse Год назад

Thanks for the recommendation. Cheers!

@LotsofLisa Год назад

Imagine the purchasing of your house having to be approved by Parliament (Congress). I do wonder how hard it was to get approval to import 100 different species of plants from around the world…

@bethbartlett5692 Год назад

It's a worthy point to note, much 8f what is taught as History, is highly influenced or Produced, by various elites from then to now.

@dre4011 Год назад

I drove past Virginia House & Agecroft on Monday!! Come to Richmond Ken.

@johnpanos2332 Год назад

how cool.......this couple of the leisure class rolled up Conspicuous consumption and Conspicuous waste in one house

@lisadolan689 Год назад

🙏🙂

@IntriguedLioness Год назад

It was not the 1st time it won't be the last I history but as a Brit it is hard to see this as "architectural salvage". All of this due to the economic issues that hit Europe after WW2. I once toured San Simeon and to see entire rooms ... walls, ceilings, flooring all relocated in a hodgepodge of gluttony.. Only to those buildings often razed only a few decades later..... Hard to see beauty when you know the history.

@jrgnc1 Год назад

How do you disassemble a stone house and transport it to another country? Incredible!

@firecracker3911 Год назад

👍

@mikehill3728 Год назад

so they removed hisorical buildings and reassembled them somewhere else into a mishmash and called it preservation? some might call it desecration

@andreasmorgen7575 Год назад

Better that they were saved and not torn down though. 😅

@gmanette188 Год назад

More money than sense is what grandma would say

@asylumlover 3 месяца назад

I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS AMAZING LANDMARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DECLARE THIS A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENT, AND DECLARE IT A DEFINITE DEMOLITION FREE ZONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@josephsf2452 Год назад

Horrific ending to such abundant life's

@walterward8164 Год назад

A.. So they didn't do anything that they said they would do. Or did I miss interpret the beginning?

@eily_b Год назад

It's open to the public to this day and is probably better off in Virginia than in the UK where some rich bugger would have most likely bought it, stripped it off all its beauty and turned it into a "modern" house.

@greghammer5321 Год назад

where in Virginia is the house located

@ThisHouse Год назад

It's on Sulgrave Rd in Richmond.

@shannonrubush5771 Год назад

Where in Virginia is this house located?

@ThisHouse Год назад

It is located in Richmond on Sulgrave Rd.

@djmoulton1558 Год назад

Warwick is actually pronounced Warrick.

@ThisHouse Год назад

Thank you for the clarification. Cheers!

@johnking1026 Год назад

it is ironic that moving the home to the United States made have saved it from the 1960s UK wrecking balls

@inchhighpi9514 Год назад

Recycling at its finest.

@annettebrunette1402 Год назад

It’s a shame they both perished in that train derailment

@wolverineeagle Год назад

The removal of the house from the UK was gross. If they were truly interested in historical preservation they would have left it there and lived there part time. The later slapping together of pieces of various other older homes is just…blech.

@patricialong5767 Год назад

rather odd to want to mix different manor houses together, very odd! I do love good architecture but am not a fan of mish mashing different styles intermixing. Each manor house was different and a true work of art alone.