Historic Richmond's Quoit Club

Where History & Architecture Meet for Conversation & Cocktails

Moments from our 2023 Season:

A tour of the Manchester space that houses RVA Kids First Collective kicked off our 2023 Quoit Club season!
A tour of the Manchester space that houses RVA Kids First Collective kicked off our 2023 Quoit Club season!
Members-only Quoit Club tours of private residences are one highlight of membership.
Members-only Quoit Club tours of private residences are one highlight of membership.
Meet new friends (and bring your own friends) to Quoit Club! It's a great way to see each other while appreciating Richmond revitalization.
Meet new friends (and bring your own friends) to Quoit Club! It's a great way to see each other while appreciating Richmond revitalization.
Hear stories of adaptive-reuse and revitalization from the projects' own architects, engineers, and owners. Here, Dave Johannes of Johannes Design talks about challenges and successes of the community-based Oakwood Arts project.
Hear stories of adaptive-reuse and revitalization from the projects' own architects, engineers, and owners. Here, Dave Johannes of Johannes Design talks about challenges and successes of the community-based Oakwood Arts project.
Talking about the Low Line with Capital Trees.
Talking about the Low Line with Capital Trees.
Junior Board volunteers at this summer's Monumental Church tour.
Junior Board volunteers at this summer's Monumental Church tour.
Our Monumental Church tour gave insight into the latest restorations undertaken at this historic site of national history.
Our Monumental Church tour gave insight into the latest restorations undertaken at this historic site of national history.

Join us for the 2024 season! Want to get on the guest list for some of the most exciting social engagements in Richmond? Membership in the 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.

Traditionally, quoits was a game played during the 1820s and 1840s with steel rings and metal spikes--think 19th century horseshoes. Through social gatherings, the Quoit Club supports Historic Richmond’s mission by engaging its members in caring about and for our distinctive built environment: past, present and future.

The season runs from spring until fall of each year; events are typically scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 6 p.m.
Members must be at least 21 years of age.

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Gather your friends and join us- there's nothing quite like a Quoit Club event!

Is your Quoit Club membership a gift? When you make your purchase, you will receive a link so you may print a custom gift certificate, the perfect gift of Richmond!

Our 2024 Season:

April 18 – 3North/Richmond Design Office
A 2023 Golden Hammer Award winner in Best Rehabilitation, the Richmond Design Office project renovated the interior of the building that once housed Mutual Assurance and later the Boy Scouts of America headquarters for a design firm’s office. The project envisioned community-oriented gathering spaces on the first story and a collaborative open studio on the second with a symbiotic relationship between the levels.

The first story was pared back to clean lines and authentic materials complementing the existing midcentury modern material palette and prioritizing flexibility. The lower level welcomes the community through its curated rotating gallery and generous multi-purpose space for artist lectures, student thesis showcases, or local board meetings. With generous views to the sky and adjacent tree canopies, the second story is a beehive of creativity where the users can seamlessly flow between different modes of working and collaborating.

May 16 – Private Monument Avenue Residence, 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.

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Quoit Club October Monumental

Mourning The Richmond Theatre Fire at Monumental Church

Mourning The Richmond Theatre Fire at Monumental Church | Thursday, October 17, 6-8 p.m. | 1224 E Broad St | Single Ticket $25 Mark the spookiest of months by learning…

Quoit Club Sept Moore St School

Hard Hat Tour of Moore Street School

Hard Hat Tour of Moore Street School | Thursday, September 19, 6-8 p.m. | 1113 Moore St | Single Ticket $25Moore Street School was constructed in 1887 and was the…

Quoit Club August Shenandoah

Revitalization at The Shenandoah

Revitalization at The Shenandoah | Thursday, August 15, 6-8 p.m. | 501 N Allen Ave | Single Ticket $25  Come take a sneak peek of the renovation and transformation of…

Quoit Club July Brookland Park Blvd

Brookland Park Blvd and Tax Credits Walking Tour with Cory Weiner

Brookland Park Blvd and Tax Credits Walking Tour with Cory Weiner | Thursday, July 18, 6-8 p.m. | Single Ticket $25 Begun in 1890, the Brookland Park Historic District is…

Quoit Club: June: Monroe Ward LGBTQ

Quoit Club: LGBTQ+ Tour of Monroe Ward

LGBTQ+ Tour of Monroe Ward | Thursday, June 20, 6-8 p.m. | Tour begins and ends outside Historic Richmond’s headquarters at 4 E. Main St | Single Ticket $25 Did…

Quoit Club: 3North Richmond Design Office

Quoit Club: 3North’s Richmond Design Office

3North’s Richmond Design Office | Thursday, April 18, 6-8 p.m. | 4015 Fitzhugh Ave | Single Ticket $25A 2023 Golden Hammer Award winner in Best Rehabilitation, the Richmond Design Office…

Fact vs Fiction: Two Authors Tell the Story of Monumental

Fact vs. Fiction

Fact vs. Fiction: Two Writers Tell the Story of the Richmond Theater Fire From Different Perspectives | Panel Discussion | Monumental Church | $25 Calling all book clubs and bookworms!…

Saving Richmond's Civic Buildings

Saving Richmond’s Civic Buildings

Panel Discussion | Monumental Church | $25 ACTIVIST PASS: This event is now FREE!While this event is now free, registration is required. Sign up here! Built by and for the…

Historic Garden Week River Hill 2024

Historic Garden Week | River Hill

Date | Wednesday April 24, 2024Morning tour: 10-1 p.m.Afternoon tour: 1-4 p.m.Hosts | The Council of Historic Richmond and the four GCV Clubs in Richmond The River Hill subdivision of…

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