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Quoit Club | McKinnon and Harris
McKinnon and Harris 1722 Arlington Road June 16 | 6-8 p.m. Members-Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership McKinnon and Harris handcrafts original designs of estate, garden, and yacht furniture using enduring techniques with master craftspeople. Their Richmond, Virginia workshop and headquarters are located in the city’s historic Scott’s Addition neighborhood, of which their showroom won…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Monument Avenue Residence
Monument Avenue Residence May 19 | 6-8 p.m. Members-Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership A newcomer to Richmond, but raised on Virginia architecture, design, and furniture, this Monument Avenue homeowner graciously gives Quoit Club a glimpse into his under-renovation home, and a generations-old family business. While not a hard hat tour, this 1924…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Dr. Hughes House
Dr. Hughes House 508 St. James Street April 21 | 6-8 p.m. Members-Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership Quoit Club visits the newly-renovated Dr. Hughes House in Jackson Ward with local developer and owner, Zarina Fazaldin, a Golden Hammer Award winner in the Best Restoration category. This is a members-only event. To join Quoit Club,…
Read MoreQuoit Club: Hollywood Cemetery
Thursday, October 21, 2021. 5:00 p.m. *NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME due to when the sun sets! Members-Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership Walk with us through Hollywood Cemetery as we explore its past and present! Brief History of Hollywood Cemetery: Designed and established in 1847 by noted architect John Notman, Hollywood Cemetery has been…
Read MoreQuoit Club: Belle Isle: POSTPONED!!!
Due to the flash flood state of emergency, Quoit Club: Belle Isle is POSTPONED! We will now tour Belle Isle on WEDNESDAY, September 22nd! New Date! Wednesday, September 22, 2021. 6:00 p.m. Members-Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership Walk with us on Belle Isle Thursday, September 16, 2021. This members-only tour will be…
Read MoreQuoit Club: 1708 Monteiro Street
Thursday, August 19, 2021. 6:00 p.m. Members Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership We are excited to share with you the final house of three houses we are rehabilitating with project:HOMES and the City of Richmond as part of our Gateway Corridor Revitalization Project. This project provides affordable housing while preserving the rich architectural and cultural fabric of the…
Read MoreQuoit Club: VA War Memorial
Thursday, July 15, 2021 6:00 p.m. Members Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership During World War II, nearly 10,000 Virginians made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Five years later in 1950, the Virginia General Assembly authorized the construction of a memorial to honor and remember them. By…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Jackson Ward Cemeteries
Join us for a members only walking tour of the proposed Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District in Jackson Ward, featuring Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Hebrew Cemetery, and the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground. Guides include Ryan Smith, PhD, professor of history at VCU; William Obrochta, Director of Beth Ahabah’s Museum and Archives; Ellen Chapman, PhD,…
Read MoreHistoric Garden Day
The heart of Richmond’s first Old & Historic District, St. John’s Church (1741) was the first church built in the city, and is notable as the site of Patrick Henry’s famous “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. What came to be known as Church Hill is the oldest intact neighborhood, and contains the most…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery
POSTPONED! Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery with the Valentine 412 S. Cherry Street Thursday, October 15, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Stroll through Hollywood Cemetery and explore the history and landscape that comprises this public space. This walking tour focuses on the cemetery’s unique history, its landscape design, architecture, symbols and noted residents. Hollywood Cemetery has it all: Civil…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Port City Apartments
POSTPONED! Port City Apartments 800 Jefferson Davis Highway Thursday, September 17, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Port City is a $28.6 million pioneering economic development project on the historic Route 1 corridor. Not only is it the largest new residential project in this challenged area, the project includes the largest solar installation in Richmond – which greatly…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Dominion Energy Building *MEMBERS ONLY
POSTPONED! Dominion Energy Building *MEMBERS-ONLY TOUR 600 E. Grace Street Thursday, August 20, 6:00pm to 8:00pm The 20-story project is approximately 1 million square feet and occupies a full city block. It includes a high-performance workplace for over 1,000 employees, street-level retail, employee amenities and parking. The building is targeted LEED Gold and integrates a…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Virginia War Memorial
POSTPONED! Virginia War Memorial 621 S. Belvidere Street Thursday, July 16, 6:00pm to 8:00pm In 1950, five years after the end of World War II, the Virginia General Assembly authorized the construction of a memorial to honor and remember the nearly 10,000 Virginians who made the ultimate sacrifice serving in the U.S Armed Forces. Nearly…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Blue Bee Cider
POSTPONED! Blue Bee Cider 1322 Summit Avenue Thursday, June 18, 6:00pm to 8:00pm A creative adaptive reuse project and 2017 Golden Hammer Award nomination, Blue Bee Cider is located in the historic Summit Stables in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood. The former city stables complex, built in 1940 is made from old granite street cobbles, it…
Read MoreQuoit Club | McKinnon & Harris * MEMBERS ONLY
POSTPONED McKinnon & Harris *MEMBERS-ONLY TOUR 1722 Arlington Road Thursday, May 21, 6:00pm to 8:00pm An adaptive reuse of a 1940’s warehouse in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood is the new home of the McKinnon and Harris corporate headquarters, regional showroom, and worldwide fabrication facility. Alongside serving an intensive set of functional requirements, this project sought…
Read MorePOSTPONED Quoit Club | Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site * MEMBERS ONLY
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site *MEMBERS-ONLY TOUR 600 N. 2nd Street Thursday, April 16, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Maggie Lena Walker devoted her life to civil rights advancement, economic empowerment, and educational opportunities for Jim Crow-era African Americans and women. As a bank president, newspaper editor, and fraternal leader, Walker served as an inspiration of…
Read MorePOSTPONED- Quoit Club | Southern Barton Heights Gateway Corridor Projects
This event is POSTPONED. 1611 Monteiro Street Thursday, March 19, 6:00pm to 8:00pm After nearly two and a half years of planning, meetings, site visits and working through the issues with fellow nonprofits and government officials, we are excited to be moving forward with the Gateway Corridor Revitalization Project – a unique partnership with project:HOMES…
Read More2020 Quoit Club Membership Drive
Congregation Beth Ahabah 1121 W. Franklin Street Thursday, February 13, 6:00pm to 8:00pm The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining Quoit Club. Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407. About Congregation Beth Ahabah: Congregation Beth Ahabah is one of the oldest congregations in Richmond. It moved to its…
Read MoreQuoit Club | 1717 Innovation Center (MEMBERS ONLY)
Based out of a 100 year-old, 5-story heavy-timber former tobacco warehouse in the growing Shockoe Bottom region, the 1717 Innovation Center is a community-driven business incubator, housing the non-profit Start-Up Virginia. This 5-story heavy-timber tobacco warehouse in Shockoe Bottom is home to Capital One’s Future Edge program, which facilitates investment in local businesses and mentoring…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Laburnum House
This Georgian Revival style mansion was built for Joseph Bryan and was considered one of the most luxurious residences in Richmond at the time of its completion in 1908.The Bryan’s Laburnum estate was originally well over 100 acres and is the namesake for Laburnum Park. The most impressive exterior feature of the building is a…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Richmond Ballet
The Richmond Ballet moved into their current space in 2000 after a major renovation. Previously, the building had been a manufacturing facility for Reynolds Metals and featured all of the heavy concrete and rough edges one would expect to find in a 1920’s industrial building. Rather than covering up these rough edges, the new design…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Fairfield- Private Home (MEMBERS ONLY)
211 Ross Road Fairfield was originally known as Rocky Mills when it stood in Hanover County from the middle of the 18th century until it was moved to Henrico County in the 1920s. It is a mansion with great presence distinguished by bold classical elements combined with a traditional Georgian plan, paneling, and brickwork. Of…
Read MoreQuoit Club Membership Drive | Virginia Museum of History and Culture
The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining the 2019 season. Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society—a private, non-profit organization. The historical society is the oldest cultural organization in Virginia, and one of the…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Known as the Old Stone House, this building is the oldest original building in Richmond. The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, now Preservation Virginia, saved the building from destruction in 1913 and loaned it to the Poe Foundation for use as a Poe Museum which opened in 1922. Beginning in 1927, the surrounding…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Ellen Glasgow House
*This is a MEMBERS ONLY tour Originally built for Richmond tobacco merchant David Branch in 1841, the Ellen Glasgow House takes its name from the author Ellen Glasgow, whose family bought the house in 1887. Glasgow, who lived in the house until her death in 1945, was a well-known Southern novelist and one of few…
Read MoreQuoit Club | White House of the Confederacy
Built in 1818 as the John Brockenbrough Mansion, the house is commemorating its 200th anniversary this year and is one of the finer examples of Federal architecture in Richmond. Over the years, it has served many roles, most famously that of Executive Mansion of Jefferson Davis and his family from 1861-1865. While those four years…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Richmond Railway Museum
The Hull Street Station was built in 1915 and operated until 1957 when Southern Railway donated the building to the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1982 and the Richmond Railroad Museum was established. A Railway Express car was moved to the property 1987 and was used as “the museum” until…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Church Hill Walking Tour
***NOTE CHANGE** Church Hill Walking Tour *Members-Only Tour This Walking Tour is for Quoit Club Members Only Tour lead by guides from The Richmond Tour Guys We will meet at St. John’s Mews at Historic Richmond’s Pilot block. Experience the birthplace of a city while meandering through 240 years of architecture in Richmond’s oldest residential neighborhood.…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Tuckahoe Plantation
*This is a MEMBERS ONLY tour Tuckahoe Plantation is a National Historic Landmark and considered to be one of the finest early 18th century plantation homes in America. The unique H-frame construction house, with it’s elaborate cornices, alcoves, staircases and domed ceilings was the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson. The one room school house that still…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Mobleux
Originally the Saunders Station post office, this building was built in 1937 as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Work Progress Administration (WPA). Today, Mobleux a software development company, is headquartered in the building with modern meeting spaces, offices, and a theater. In the lobby, original PO boxes still remain and a high resolution photograph of…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Ellwood Thompson’s
Originally the Higgins Medical Offices, this circular landmark in the museum district is known for its 1950’s midcentury modern architecture. The building was designed by David Yerkes and the landscape was designed by landscape architect, Charles Gillette. This site not only had an impact architecturally, but was one of the first doctors’ offices to open…
Read MoreQuoit Club Membership Drive |The HandCraft Building
Annual Quoit Club Membership Drive The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining the 2018 Quoit Club season. Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407 Originally the Binswanger Glass Company factory, the building is an example of Modern-style architecture in Richmond. Binswanger & Company was founded in Richmond in…
Read MoreQuoit Club | 3210 Seminary Avenue
3210 Seminary Ave. | The Gilliam Watt House *This event is a Members-Only event Single tickets may not be purchased Event is free for Quoit Club members No stiletto heals may be worn in the home Street parking is available on the even numbered side of Seminary Avenue The Gilliam Watt House, located at 3210…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Tektonics Design Group
Event is free for members. Single Tickets: $20
Read MoreQuoit Club | St. John’s Church
St. John’s Church was the first church built in the city of Richmond. It was completed in 1741 as part of the Henrico Parish, established in 1611. William Byrd II, founder of the city of Richmond, donated the land and timber to build the church. The graveyard is the site of the first public cemetery…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Maymont Mansion
In 1886, James and Sallie Dooley acquired farmland on the banks of the James River, where they planned to build a new home. Their architect, Edgerton Stewart Rogers (1860-1901), born and educated in Rome, combined the Romanesque Revival style with the picturesque Queen Anne for the Dooley residence. By 1893, the Dooleys were living in…
Read MoreQuoit Club | 1812 Monument Avenue
This home of quiet elegance was designed by noted architect Claude Howell. Constructed in 1925, it was originally used as a SFH, and later converted a office space and apartments. It was recently renovated by the current owner into the stunning, spacious house you see today, and is currently for sale. Guests will have the…
Read MoreQuoit Club | 508 St. James Street
508 St. James Street was built in 1915. Designed by Charles Thaddeus Russell, one of Virginia’s first black architects, this house served as the home of prominent African-American physician, Dr. William Henry Hughes. The property later became the Negro Training Center for the Blind; it was the only public school for blind African Americans in…
Read MoreQuoit Club | East End Theater
A special thanks to our delicious food sponsor Liberty Public House! What was once the historic East End Theater of Church Hill, is now a newly constructed apartment community. Originally constructed in 1938, this re-purposed historic landmark is the matchless coalescence of iconic architecture, structure and modern décor. Completed in June of 2015, this three-story…
Read MoreQuoit Club | The Train Shed
The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining the 2017 Quoit Club season. Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407. The Main Street Station train shed is under construction and expected to be complete in Spring 2017. The $49 million, 100,000-square-foot renovations will transform the train shed into a…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Monumental Church
On December 26, 1811, a fire at the Richmond Theatre claimed the lives of over seventy-two people, including the governor. Robert Mills, America’s first native-born, professional architect and a student of Thomas Jefferson, designed Monumental Church to be built on the theater site. The church is an unusual octagonal form capped with a dome. The…
Read MoreQuoit Club | VCU Institute for Contemporary Art
Currently under construction, the ICA is poised to become a cultural linchpin for the city of Richmond. The non-collecting museum will showcase a fresh slate of changing innovative exhibitions, performances, films and special programs. VCU’s 41,000-square-foot Institute for Contemporary Art will be an incubator for interdisciplinary experimentation for the entire university while simultaneously providing opportunities for collaboration…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Richmond Public Library – Main Branch
Richmond Public Library was founded by civic-minded leaders in the early 1900’s. The establishment of a public library for Richmond residents took several tries, however. The Finance Committee of Richmond’s Common Council twice passed up Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s generous offers of financial assistance to establish a public library in Richmond. The first offer, of $100,000,…
Read MoreQuoit Club | The Scott House
The Scott House is one of Richmond’s most important architectural survivors from the great age of American patronage called the American Renaissance (1876-1914). The American Renaissance movement took shape at the time of the nation’s Centennial, when Americans began to see our country as a successor to the great civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome,…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Gallery5
Gallery5 is located in Jackson Ward, and is the best-preserved of Richmond’s few surviving nineteenth-century firehouses. Steamer Company Number 5 was built in 1883 to continue the function of firefighting and police station for the Jackson Ward neighborhood begun in 1849 by a previous building on the site. The gallery opened its doors in 2005…
Read MoreQuoit Club | The Barton Mansion
The Barton Mansion, previously known as Corner Minor, was built in the 1890s for James H. Barton, the original developer of Barton Heights. Representative of the Queen Anne style, this house boasts a round corner tower with a bell cast roof and finial, wraparound porch, Palladian windows and lunettes in the gable ends, and is…
Read MoreQuoit Club | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
St. Paul’s is one of Richmond’s premier historic sites. The parish came into being as an outgrowth of Monumental Church to accommodate the expanding membership. Consecrated in 1845, the building is a masterpiece of the Greek Revival style, and a stately complement to Thomas Jefferson’s temple-form capital across the street. The building was designed by…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Virginia Holocaust Museum
The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining the 2016 season. Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407. The Virginia Holocaust Museum was founded in 1997 by Mark Fetter, Al Rosenbaum, and one of Richmond’s youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, in an effort to preserve and educate people on…
Read MoreQuoit Club | The Black History Museum
Thursday, October 15, 6 – 8 pm The Black History Museum | Leigh Street Armory 122 West Leigh Street This castle-like armory is the oldest African American armory in Virginia. Made of red brick, it is trimmed with granite and terra-cotta crenellation along the roofline. According to Selden Richardson’s Built by Blacks, before the…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Byrd Park Pump House
Thursday, September 10, 6 – 8 pm Byrd Park Pump House, 1708 Pump House Drive *Please note this event will be held on the second Thursday in September.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…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Allen Double House
Thursday, August 20, 6 – 8 pm Allen Double House, 4 East Main Street Good Afternoon Everyone! Due to unforeseen construction issues, the Barton Mansion will NO LONGER BE ABLE to accommodate the Historic Richmond Quoit Club this Thursday. Instead, Quoit Club will meet at the Allen Double House (Historic Richmond Headquarters) at 4 East Main…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Sabot at Stony Point
Thursday, July 16, 6 – 8 pm Sabot at Stony Point, 3400 Stony Point Road 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. Lewis Griffin Larus,…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Virginia House
Thursday, June 18, 6 – 8 pm Virginia House, 4301 Sulgrave Road *This event is for 2015 Quoit Club Members only. We will not be selling individual tickets for this event due to space limitations. Mix and mingle with great people, enjoy fantastic food and drink and absorb fascinating expert commentary on Richmond history,…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Altria Theatre
Thursday, May 21, 6 – 8 pm Altria Theater, 6 N. Laurel Street 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 Altria Theater, originally named…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Byrd Theatre
Thursday, April 16, 5:30- 7:30 pm Byrd Theatre, 2908 W. Cary Street *Please note the time for this event does not follow typical format.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…
Read MoreQuoit Club | Netherwood Restoration
Thursday, March 19, 6 – 8 pm Netherwood Restoration, 2525-2509 O Street 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. Heirloom Restorations is hard at work…
Read MoreQuoit Club Membership Drive
Thursday, March 5, 6 – 8 pm Main Street Station, 1500 E. Main Street The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining Quoit Club. Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407. About Main Street Station: Since its opening day in 1901, Main Street Station has been regarded as one…
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