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Want to get on the guest list for some of the most exciting social engagements in Richmond? Membership in Historic Richmond’s Quoit Club gets you an all-access pass to the past, with members-only tours inside some of the most interesting buildings and locations in the city. You’ll mix and mingle with great people, enjoy fantastic food and drink and absorb fascinating expert commentary on Richmond history, architecture and culture. Part Happy Hour and part field trip, there’s nothing quite like a Quoit Club event.

The Quoit Club season runs from April until October of each year; events are typically scheduled for the third Thursday of each month. Members must be at least 21 years of age. One membership ticket purchases one season’s membership for one person.

Young Professional Quoit Club Membership – Must be 35 and under. One membership purchases a season of tours for one person. Purchasing more than one membership? Please include all names as you would like to be known in your payment “additional information” field.

Our 2024 Season:

May 16 – Private Monument Avenue Residence, Quoit Club Members Only!

June 20 – LBGTQ Monroe Ward Walking Tour
Did you know Monroe Ward is filled with LBGTQ+ history? From the Ellen Glasgow House, Dominion Arts Center, the Richmond Public Library, the YWCA… in a few blocks we visit architecture and eras of history, legislation, and activism represented on this architectural walk.

July 18 –  Brookland Park Boulevard Tax Credits Walking Tour
Begun in 1890, the Brookland Park Historic District is a streetcar suburb that expanded eventually into Barton Heights. Brookland Park Boulevard is now undergoing revitalization, and Cory Weiner is one resident who uses historic tax credits for renovations. Walk this special commercial and neighborhood district of the past, reclaiming a vibrant present, continuing to blossom for tomorrow!

August 15 – Revitalization at The Shenandoah
Come take a sneak peek of the renovation and transformation of The Shenandoah, an apartment building-turned-senior living facility, now in the process of conversion to a 70+ unit boutique hotel by Ash NYC set to open in Fall 2024!

Designed by German-born architect Carl Ruehrmund (who also designed Hotel Stumpf), the Shenandoah was an ambitious project in 1906 – celebrating urban high-rise development while maintaining privacy with the building’s placement, its front facing a quiet park and embraced within wide avenues. Located in the Monument Avenue Historic District, explore revitalization and preservation at an iconic cross street’s gateway and see how the past can enhance the future.

September 19 – Hard Hat Tour of Carver’s Moore Street School
Moore Street School was constructed in 1887 and was the first of three very similar structures designed by Colonel Wilfred Emory Cutshaw, Richmond’s City Engineer from 1874 – 1905. The school was originally built as an African American Elementary School and most recently has been used by George Washington Carver Elementary School.

Currently owned by Richmond Public Schools, the building has fallen into disrepair. In recent years, led by Jerome Legions, citizen activists came together to create the Moore Street School Foundation. A resident of the Carver Community and Carver Area Civic Improvement League president, Mr. Legions is a citizen activist focused on saving and re-engaging historic Moore Street School for the community. The mission of the Moore Street School Foundation is to bring this historic structure back online through the following steps: acquisition, stabilization, preservation and community utilization.

October 17 – Mourning The Richmond Theatre Fire at Monumental Church
Mark the spookiest of months by learning more about the funerary and mourning symbols used by Roberts Mills in the design of Monumental Church, which is the site of one of the country’s greatest tragedies.

Thanks to recent popular books (Rachel Beanland’s The House is on Fire and Meredith Henne Baker’s non-fiction The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster) the site’s importance in our national history is being rediscovered. Monumental Church was constructed in 1814 as a community tribute to the victims of the Richmond Theater Fire three years earlier. Discover how the Richmond community processed their grief through the built environment, as well as other less tangible means. Mourning dress encouraged.