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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
 8 b&w photos |  5 data pages |  1 photo caption pages |
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TITLE:
Virginia Military Institute, Superintendent's Quarters, Virginia Military Institute Parade Grounds, Lexington, VA
CALL NUMBER:
HABS VA,82-LEX,3A-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 8 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 4 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.
CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Davis, Alexander Jackson
NOTE:
Survey number HABS VA-901
Building/structure dates: 1862 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1914
Significance: "Davis's project for the V.M.I. was the first comprehensive one in the Gothic style actually to be built in this country ... The style differed radically from preceding academic buildings elsewhere in being almost wholly military ... This choice of Medieval military architecture for the new Institute in Virginia obviously set the tone for all later construction at West Point, at V.M.I. itself, and other such quasi-miitary schools." This is the only building in the original group that was not destroyed by General Hunter in 1864. (Newton, Town and Davis, Architects)
SUBJECTS:
VIRGINIA----Lexington
COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.va0907
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. SOUTH FRONT, FROM THE SOUTHWEST
2. EAST SIDE
3. EAST SIDE AND NORTH REAR
4. DETAIL, SOUTH FRONT, PORCH AND ENTRANCE BAYS
5. INTERIOR, ENTRANCE HALL, LOOKING SOUTH
6. INTERIOR, ENTRANCE HALL, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
7. INTERIOR, LIBRARY, LOOKING WEST INTO ENTRANCE HALL
8. INTERIOR, PARLOR (FORMERLY DINING ROOM), LOOKING NORTH
CONTROL #:
VA0907
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