House Porn: Inside Richmond's Agecroft Hall

demetria lucas January 12, 2016

Agecroft Hall was my first stop in Richmond.

I do a LOT of house tours. It took awhile, but I've passed the newly convert stage where I have to see every single house available, and have become more discriminatory. I’ve figured out the time period that I enjoy most, roughly plantation houses of the one percent and the Gilded Age, 1890-1920 or so.

Agecroft Hall falls way outside the parameters. It’s an 500 year old English Tudor mansion that originally resided in Lancashire, England. So how did it in end up in Virginia? That’s what I was there to find out.

THE SPRING BREAK THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED, PART 3

demetria lucas August 4, 2013

My Mom calls me back as I’m following the police car with Margaret in it. The officer said the station was 10 minutes away and we’re driving straight down a two-lane road with no street lights. We should be there shortly.

THE SPRING BREAK THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED

demetria lucas August 2, 2013

More than a decade ago, my father made an unusual decision. I’d asked to drive to Atlanta (10 hour drive) with my best friend for Spring Break my senior year of college. I usually skipped SB all together. The drinking age, obviously, was 21, and I was 20 when I graduated in college, so in my estimation, there wasn’t much fun to be had. Anyone whose chosen to remain sober when surrounded by drunk people will tell you the same. But it was the final semester, and I’d spent the fall in London and missed my last homecoming as a student. Maybe he took pity on me. Maybe he was delusional. Miraculously, Dad, who I full well expected to say “no”, said “okay.”

House Porn: Inside Richmond's Agecroft Hall

THE SPRING BREAK THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED, PART 3

THE SPRING BREAK THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED

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