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Old Stone House

Old Stone House is a house in , , which is located on East Main Street. Old Stone House is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .
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  • Type: House
  • Description: historic house in Richmond, Virginia
  • Also known as: “Poe Museum”, “The Old Stone House”, and “Washington’s Headquarters”
  • Address: 1916 East Main Street, Richmond, VA 23223

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edgar Allan Poe Museum and Virginia Holocaust Museum.

Museum
Photo: Albrecht Conz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Poe Museum or the , is a located in the neighborhood of , , , dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Museum
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The is a public history museum located in , , United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims. is situated 440 feet south of Old Stone House.

Archaeological site
Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.
was a Confederate prison at , during the American Civil War. In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days Battles and other conflicts of the Union's Peninsular campaign to take Richmond and end the war only a year after it had begun. is situated 560 feet south of Old Stone House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip.

Neighborhood
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, historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in , just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill and , contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the downtown area of . The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former .

Neighborhood
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is a historic district of , . According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington…

Old Stone House

Latitude
37.5321° or 37° 31′ 56″ north
Longitude
-77.42604° or 77° 25′ 34″ west
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
Open location code
8794GHJF+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 365615571
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­house
Geo­Names ID
4789211
Wiki­data ID
Q136720428
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