Architecture

Branch House

Branch House in Richmond, Virginia, was designed in 1916 by the firm of John Russell Pope as a private residence of financier John Kerr Branch and his wife Beulah Gould Branch. The house lies within Richmond's Monument Avenue Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1967. Branch House itself was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district's status was extended in 1989 and subsequently upgraded to a National Historic Landmark in 1997. After a Branch family heir gifted the home to a local charity in the 1950s, the house changed ownership several times until it was purchased in 2003 by the Virginia Architecture Foundation (formerly the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation) in 2005 it reopened as the headquarters of its successor, the Virginia Center for Architecture (VCA) with offices for the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA), VCA moved from the Branch House in 2015. Since 2015, the Branch House has been the home of The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design (www.branchmuseum.org).

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See also

• ▸Harry F. Sinclair House
• ▸Ghost bat
• ▸Altarpiece of San Nicolò della Lattuga

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