St Catherine's School

  • Also Known As: File No. 127-5886
  • Historically Known As: Miss Jennies
  • Historically Known As: Virginia Randolph Ellett School

  • Address: 6001 Grove Ave
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1890/00/00 Virginia Randolph Ellett Vocation Miss Jennie opens the "Virginia Randolph Ellett School" in her mother's Richmond, Virginia boarding house
1905/00/00 Edward Wren Hudgins Education Edward W Hudgins graduates for Richmond College, now University of Richmond, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
1917/00/00 Virginia Randolph Ellett School moves to its present location, originally part of the 139-acre West View Farm
1920/00/00 "Miss Jennie's" is incorporated into the newly established system of Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia and renamed St Catherine's School
1921/00/00 Hobart Upjohn Architect St Catherine's School main buildings are constructed between 1922 and 1953 per the 1921 master plan by New York architect Hobart Upjohn
1922/00/00 Hobart Upjohn Architect Upjohn's brick, Georgian Revival, Ellett Hall, the first of school buildings, is built
1937/00/00 Charles F Gillette Landscape Architect Charles Gillette develops landscape plans for St Catherine's campus that includes the central game lawn and athletic field (now the Green) framed by a brick walk lined with paired elm trees.

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Particulars for St Catherine's School:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Education
Historic Use Educational related housing
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use School
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 4th May 2007

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: St. Catherine's School
Registry Address: 6001 Grove Ave.
Registry Number: 07000400
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Upjohn, Hobart; et.al.
Architectural Style: Colonial revival
Area in Acres: 14
Contributing Buildings: 11
Non-Contributing Buildings: 9
Contributing Sites: 2
Non-Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Objects: 1
Non-Contributing Objects: 10
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture, Education, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Person, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1917, 1920, 1921
Associated People: Ellett, Virginia Randolph
Historic Function: Education
Historic Sub-Function: School, Educational related housing
Current Function: Education
Current Sub-Function: School Educational related housing

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