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1. VMFROB_200102_05.JPG: Robinson House Built ca. 1828, expanded 1856 and 1886 This imposing building began as a one-story summerhouse built in the late 1820s by Richmond banker Anthony Robinson Jr. Expanded in 1856 into a fashionable Italianate mansion, it became a year-round residence for the Robinson family. Their enslaved laborers lived in nearby cabins. Following the end of the Civil War in April 1865, then-widowed Rebecca Robinson invited Union officers to occupy the house to ward off possible looting by soldiers encamped nearby. In 1884 the couple's son Channing sold the residence and thirty-six acres to a newly formed Confederate veterans' organization to build the R.E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home. Two years later, the building -- renamed Fleming Hall -- gained a third floor and towering belvedere. For the next half century, it housed the institution's administration offices and war museum. After the soldiers' home closed, the Commonwealth of Virginia granted use of the building to the Virginia Institute for Scientific Research (1949- 1963) and to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1964-present), which gained ownership in 1993. Following extensive renovations in 2017, it incorporates a tourism center, offices, and an exhibition space. In the first half of the 20th century, parcels of land at the soldiers' home were granted to erect the Confederate Memorial Institute (1921, "Battle Abbey," later absorbed by the Virginia Historical Society); Home for Confederate Women (1932); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1936); and headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (1957). In 1934, the state named the grounds the R.E. Lee Camp Confederate Memorial Park -- a designation that remains today. Members of the Robinson family assemble in front of their two-story mansion in this photograph taken around 1880. They named their estate "The Grove" for its extensive stand of oak trees. Photo: The Valentine This 1914 postcard view of Robinson House, taken from the direction of the Boulevard, also pictures the soldiers' home hospital (far right) and Pegram Hall (center right), as well as some of the residential cottages (far left). Photo: VFMA Archives A favorite attraction in the soldiers' home museum was Stonewall Jackson's horse, Little Sorrel, who died on the grounds in 1886. The horse's preserved and mounted hide was on display -- as seen in this 1932 photograph alongside veteran J.C. Smith -- until its move to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington in 1949. It remains on view there today. Photo: Dementi Studios
2. VMFROB_200102_11.JPG: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Robinson House Richmond Region Tourism Center | Across Time Exhibition
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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