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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MMONT_130209_097.JPG: Maymont, Gilded Age Estate: During the Gilded Age (ca 1880-1910) when great fortunes were being made, many ornamental estates such as Maymont were built throughout America. These extravagant showplaces demonstrated their owners' affluence as well as the upper-class taste for diverse historical and exotic styles. In 1886, the Dooleys purchased 100 acres of rolling countryside on the James River as the site for their new home. Architect Edgerton Rogers designed the thirty-three-room, sandstone mansion, completed in 1893. The opulent upstairs rooms are restored and filled with original furnishings and artwork acquired by the Dooleys. The restored downstairs service area is furnished with artifacts of the period. Over time, the Dooleys developed the estate landscape, creating the Italian garden, Japanese garden, grotto, arboretum, and extensive parkland. Largely intact today, the original complex of picturesque outbuildings included the gatehouse, stone barn, carriage house, water tower, compost house, chicken coop, and stable, later used as the Dooleys garage. The Dooleys' mausoleum was added in 1923. An elaborate ensemble of architecture, landscape, furnishings, and carriages, Maymont today provides an unusually complete representation of a distintive era of America's past. Maymont, Domestic Workplace: Maymont was not only a home and showplace; it was also a workplace. The Dooleys typically employed seven to ten individuals to maintain the order and beauty of their residence. Their household staff included two butlers, two cooks, a housemaid, lady's maid, chauffeur, coachman, and laundress. With few exceptions, these domestic employees were African Americans. For southern blacks, the era was anything but gilded. While free from slavery, their work opportunities remained limited to agriculture, factory work, and domestic service. The period also brought increasingly strict racial segregation. To learn more about the individuals who worked here, visit the restored kitchen, laundry, pantries, and other service areas.
2. MMONT_130209_102.JPG: James & Sallie Dooley: James H. Dooley: Business Leader of the New SOuth: James Henry Dooley (1841-1922), the son of prosperous Irish immigrants, was born in Richmond. After graduating first in his class from Georgetown College, he enlisted in a Confederate militia unit. At the end of the Civil War, he established a practice in his war-torn city. Four years later he married Sallie May. In the decade that followed, Dooley served three terms in the state legislature. In the 1880s, he joined a group of other Richmonders in financing, rebuilding, and expanding southern railways, including the Richmond and Danville, the Seaboard Air Line, and the Chesapeake and Ohio. Through these and other business ventures, Dooley made a fortune and at the same time helped the economic recovery of the South. Dooley took a prominent role in the community and served on the boards of local charitable institutions including St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum and the Medical College of Virginia. Recognized locally for his knowledge of European art, Dooley served as president of the Richmond Art Club for over a decade. Sallie Dooley: Daughter of the Old South: Sarah O. "Sallie" May (1846-1925) was born in Lunenburg County, the heart of Virginia's tobacco plantation culture. She moved to Richmond after marrying James Dooley in 1869. Sallie Dooley was founding regent of the state's first chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a charter member of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia. In 1906, her book, Dem Good Ole Times, a romanticized interpretation of Virginia plantation life, was published by Doubleday, Page, and Company. Sallie Dooley and her husband enjoyed traveling together and planned their two estates -- Maymont and Swannanoa, their summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A serious student of horticulture, Sallie Dooley played an active role in developing the estate gardens and supervising their care. She was also known for her lavish entertaining at Maymont. The Dooleys' Legacy: Having no children to inherit their wealth, the Dooleys left significant bequests to several Richmond organizations. In 1922, James Dooley bequeathed $3,000,000 to build St. Joseph's Villa -- the largest gift to a Roman Catholic charity in the United States at that time. In 1925, Sallie Dooley's public bequests were considered the largest ever made by a Virginia woman. They included funds to build the Children's Hospital and the Richmond Public Library, and a fund for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. In accordance with her husbands will, she left Maymont to the City of Richmond to be used as a museum and park; however, no endowment was made for its ongoing care. Maymont opened to the public in 1926. In 1975, the nonprofit Maymont Foundation accepted responsibility for Maymont's operation, maintenance, and long-term preservation. With donations from visitors like you, Maymont will be preserved for future generations as Virginia's Gilded Age treasure.
3. MMONT_130209_638.JPG: This square and the buildings thereon were dedicated to charity by James H. Dooley in memory of his father Major John Dooley of his mother Sarah Dooley of his wife S.M. Dooley and of himself.
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Wikipedia Description: Maymont Park
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maymont is a 100 acre (400,000 m�) Victorian estate located at 2201 Shields Lake Drive, Richmond, Virginia. It contains a museum, an arboretum, formal gardens, native wildlife exhibits, nature center, carriage collection, and petting zoo known as "The Maymont Children's Farm".

In 1893, Major James H. Dooley, a wealthy Richmond lawyer and philanthropist, and his wife, Sallie, completed their elaborate Gilded Age estate on a site high above the James River. According to their wishes, after their death, Maymont was left to the people of Richmond. Over the next 75 years, additional attractions were added.

The Dooley Noted Society is the young professional group that supports Maymont through cultivation of volunteer, social and fund raising activities.

The Gardens:

The Japanese gardens located at Maymont are well tended and cared for and consist of numerous koi ponds as well as a large waterfall coming down from the terrace. There is an extensive rose garden ending in a large waterfall located on a terrace below the manor. The roses are partially shaded using with a wisteria covered arbor.

The arboretum dates from the early 20th century, and contains more than 200 species of trees and woody plants. It includes a number of "exotic champions" including a Cedrus atlantica, Cryptomeria japonica, Parrotia persica, and Tilia europea.

Maymont's gardens are popular for outdoor weddings focused around the Italian garden, the Japanese gardens, the waterfalls, or other numerous gazebos located throughout the grounds.

Another popular activity at Maymont is the Children's Farm.
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