Robinson House in Richmond, VA, Looks Quiet Now, But Its Past is Far Stranger Than It Seems

There is a brick building at 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard that most people driving past probably mistake for a side entrance to the museum.

Three stories, Italianate trim, a peculiar little belvedere poking up from the roofline – it looks important in the way that old Richmond, Virginia buildings often do, serious without quite explaining why.

The Robinson House is a good deal stranger than it appears. In the span of its nearly two-century life, it has been a summer house and a full-time mansion…

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