Venable Hall
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Venable Hall
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Venable Hall served as the original campus of Union Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian seminary adjacent to (and now part of) the Hampden-Sydney campus. Construction of Venable Hall began in 1824 and was completed in 1830. The architect and builder was Dabney Cosby who was influenced by the architecture of Thomas Jefferson. It was also designed to complement Cushing Hall, another campus building with similar proportions and Federalist design. The seminary was the head institution of the Southern Presbyterian Church and also served as the first Presbyterian Seminary in the South. Richard M. Venable graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1857 and once the Seminary moved to its current home in Richmond in 1898, he purchased the seminary buildings for $10,000 and gifted them to the college which doubled the size of the College at the time. In 2024, a major renovation of the building was completed, restoring much of it to the style of the 1820s.
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It is a 4 story Federalist brick building with no basement with wood framed floors and roof.
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Cosby, Dabney
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1830
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2024
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