Paul’s Place – A Delight For The Antique Shopper

A while back I received an email that something to the effect of:  “Your website is great.  It would be even better if it had a review of our store.”  Since I absolutely love those kinds of emails (they mean people are reading and that they like the site enough to want to be on it – WOOT!) I responded that I would be happy to.

Little did I know that the place was one of (I’m not kidding) the coolest places I’ve been in Richmond.  The place is Paul’s Place, and it’s an antique shop, an architectural salvage yard, and THE place to buy restored vintage lighting.  The entire ceiling is loaded with chandeliers that owner Paul Ferramosca has lovingly restored by hand, getting them up to code and safe for use in modern homes.

One Saturday I asked my Mom to run over there with me, and right away I knew it was the right day to come.  They were having an outdoor yard sale, of sorts, a way to separate the wheat from the chaff, as it were, and they had tables and tables full of goodies.  I had my eye on one gorgeous weirdo thing in particular:

This thing was only $20, so I bought it and hung it on the sole enormous blank wall in my house.  I’d waited a year to put anything there, because I was looking for the exact right thing.  I found it at Paul’s Place.

Everyone that works at Paul’s is fantastic, and the inventory inside the store is unmatched in quality and aesthetic appeal.  Paul’s not only collects fantastic items that can be considered antique, architectural salvage, and restored valuables, but they are environmentally conscious as well.  They believe that reusing beautiful old items is a way of staying “green” and I can’t agree more.  Check them out on the web, or like them on Facebook, and get thee to Paul’s Place as fast as your checkbook and your pickup truck can carry you!

Paul’s Place – 1009 Overbrook Road Richmond, VA 23220 – (804) 228-9999 – Open Weekdays 9:00AM -4:30PM

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Agecroft Hall – A Glimpse Into The Past

The house is a museum.  The house is amazing.  The house was built in England.

Wait, what?

Agecroft Hall, Tudor mansion, home to lush gardens, site of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival, and stunning stick-out-like-a-sore-thumb-but-in-a-good-way neighbor to the stately but more understated homes in Windsor Farms, was actually the 15^th century homestead of the Langley and Dauntesey families.  Of England.

So how did the house get here?  Thomas C. Williams, Jr., a Richmond resident, bought the estate at auction in 1925.  Instead of moving into his new home, he decided to bring this new home to him and had the house taken apart, put into crates, and shipped across the Atlantic to arrive in Richmond.  He then had it put back together in what is known now as the Windsor Farms neighborhood.  Windsor Farms is, incidentally, one of the oldest planned Richmond suburban communities.  It was designed in 1926, so it might be possible that the neighborhood was designed around Agecroft Hall.

The gardens deserve a post all to themselves, as does The Richmond Shakespeare Festival, so for now we’ll just concentrate on the house and museum itself.

From ceiling (intricately designed plaster), to floor (15^th century hardwood), the late-Tudor style house is packed full of period details and antiques.  The Great Hall features original wood paneling that is illuminated by a 25-foot long mullioned window, while the rest of the house features beautiful leaded-glass windows.

As for furnishings, the home features a lantern clock that only tells time on the hour.  A portrait of William Dauntesey hangs on the wall just as it did in 1566.  The sleeping chambers are furnished with painted wood bed frames that date back to the 17^th century.  Agecroft Hall is not to be missed for the Richmond adventurer who wants to see elegant, true examples of a rich English past.

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Going Antiquing

Richmond has many stores to satisfy any antiquing trip, but personally I think that the few on Cary Street are most promising.

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