Building, Saving, Preserving, Placing : the Richmond of Grace Arents and Mary Wingfield Scott

Two sets of row houses in Richmond, Virginia exemplify how two women, a philanthropist and a preservationist, shaped and carried out their vision for the built environment in the twentieth century. The Cumberland Street Housing built by Grace Arents (1848-1926) in 1904 and the Linden Row Houses preserved by Mary Wingfield Scott (1896-1983) in the 1950s, are architectural manifestations of their work (fig.l). Arents funded solid, fine architecture in a working-class neighborhood where she planned an acropolis of buildings for social welfare; Scott initiated Richmond's preservation movement and personally saved antebellum buildings from demolition and for the benefit of the city.

Digitization of this thesis was made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust, 2015.

Thesis originally deposited on 2016-02-19 in version 1.28 of Libra. This thesis was migrated to Libra2 on 2017-03-23 16:37:25.