{"id":4883,"date":"2019-10-06T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2019-10-06T21:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T01:00:27","slug":"swannanoa-october-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"Swannanoa – October 6, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My cousin, Jude, her son, Shawn, and Wayne and I had the opportunity to visit Swannanoa<\/a> during an open house on October 6, 2019. I’d last visited this Italian Renaissance Revival marble palace in the early 1980s when Walter and Lao Russell occupied it, and I looked forward to seeing it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Built in the early 1900s by James Dooley for his wife, Sally May, it was intended to be their summer home. Their main home, the Romanesque-style mansion, Maymont<\/a>, is in Richmond, Virginia. While Swannanoa has not been as carefully maintained as Maymont (which was bequeathed to the City of Richmond), one still has to marvel at the skills of the hundreds and hundreds of artisans and craftsmen who created this lavish mountaintop palace….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details above the front entrance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n