Hampton St. (Spottswood Rd.), Richmond (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Richmond.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 16, 1971. NRIS 71001062.
4 contributing buildings. 2 contributing structures.
Maymont is a 100-acre (0.156 sq mi) Victorian estate and public park in Richmond, Virginia. It contains Maymont Mansion, now a historic house museum, an arboretum, an Italian and Japanese garden, a carriage collection, native wildlife exhibits, a nature center, and a petting zoo.
In 1893, James H. Dooley, a wealthy Richmond lawyer and philanthropist, and his wife, Sallie, completed their elaborate Gilded Age estate on a site high above the James River. According to their wishes, after their deaths Maymont was left to the people of Richmond. Over the next 75 years, additional attractions were added.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682919