Samuel Putney House - Richmond

The Samuel Putney House is located on E. Marshall Street in the Court End District of Richmond, Virginia.  Samuel Putney, a local shoe manufacturer, lived in this home from 1862 to 1894.  The Italianate row house, originally built in 1859, is noted for several architectural touches.  It has a stuccoed facade made to look like stone, windows topped with semi-circular lintels, and a cast iron porch across the front of the structure.  The ornamental ironwork was created at the local Phoenix Iron Works.  It is a rare survivor of an antebellum residential townhouse in the heart of Richmond, in what used to be an elite neighborhood.  Sitting next door is the partner to this house, owned by Putney's son, Stephen.  The houses were saved from demolition and are used as offices by the Virginia Commonwealth University.

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