Department of Historic Resources announces easement of Ellen Glasgow house
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The Department of Historic Resources (DHR) announced recently that a preservation and open-space easement will be placed over the historic Ellen Glasgow home in Richmond. According to a Wednesday, Jan. 29 release from the DHR, the easement will be attached to the .287 acres of land that the Ellen Glasgow House takes up at 1 West Main St. in Richmond -- which includes a "two-story brick carriage house" that has been on the property since the late 1800s. (Photo: Department of Historic Resources) Glasgow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in the house from 1887 until her death 1945, according to the DHR, writing around 20 novels about the shifting social dynamics within Virginia and Richmond. Some of her most popular works include the likes of “Vein of Iron,” “Barren Ground” and “The Sheltered Life” — the last of which the Library of Virginia called “her finest work.” It's one book in a trilogy that detailed the “decay of southern aristocracy and the trauma of the instruction of modern industrialism.” The DHR said that the property was sold from former owners John W. Pearsall III and Patricia R. Pearsall to Bryon and Nicole Jesse, who own Shyndigz in Richmond, as well as Ed Bowman, president of W.E. Bowman Construction. The Jessees and Bowman are planning to turn the house into a hotel that celebrates Glasgow, according to the DHR. For more information about Glasgow and the process of this easement, click here.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- The Department of Historic Resources (DHR) announced recently that a preservation and open-space easement will be placed over the historic Ellen Glasgow home in Richmond.
According to a Wednesday, Jan. 29 release from the DHR, the easement will be attached to the .287 acres of land that the Ellen Glasgow House takes up at 1 West Main St. in Richmond -- which includes a "two-story brick carriage house" that has been on the property since the late 1800s.
(Photo: Department of Historic Resources)
Glasgow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in the house from 1887 until her death 1945, according to the DHR, writing around 20 novels about the shifting social dynamics within Virginia and Richmond.
Some of her most popular works include the likes of “Vein of Iron,” “Barren Ground” and “The Sheltered Life” — the last of which the Library of Virginia called “her finest work.” It's one book in a trilogy that detailed the “decay of southern aristocracy and the trauma of the instruction of modern industrialism.”
The DHR said that the property was sold from former owners John W. Pearsall III and Patricia R. Pearsall to Bryon and Nicole Jesse, who own Shyndigz in Richmond, as well as Ed Bowman, president of W.E. Bowman Construction. The Jessees and Bowman are planning to turn the house into a hotel that celebrates Glasgow, according to the DHR.
For more information about Glasgow and the process of this easement, click here.
