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Name: John Braymer, PhD Job title: President and CEO of the Virginia Center for Architecture, which opened on April 1, 2005. Housed in a city and state historic landmark and designed by John Russell Pope, the Center is located at 2501 Monument Avenue and operates as a museum of architecture with educational programs for youth and adults.
The Branch House, designed by a New York firm in 1914 and completed in 1919, contained 28,000 square feet in a maze of public halls, galleries, private suites, servants' quarters, a ballroom, and designated storage rooms for carpets, china, paintings and suits of armor – all at a building cost of $160,000 ... John Kerr and Beulah Gould Branch were world travelers who maintained homes seasonally on Monument Avenue, on a farm estate in upstate New York and at their villa in Florence, Italy. Although the Branch House constituted an extreme example, the tendency to build big on Monument Avenue was pervasive.
Dominion General Counsel, PC's main office is located in the historic Branch House, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2003, the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation purchased the landmark as part of its golden anniversary.
For nearly 18 years, from June 1, 1957, to March 15, 1975, the Branch Memorial House – as it was then known – was my second home (my wife might maintain it was more often my first home). The Branch Memorial House was given by Mrs. Edmond Rennolds to the Richmond Community Chest (later the United Givers Fund)
as the headquarters for the United Way of Greater Richmond. Many social events, meetings, and community activities took place on a regular basis. These included the summer concert series of the Richmond Pops Band.
The Richmond operation of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. has outgrown its office in the historic Branch House on Monument Avenue and plans to relocate this year, perhaps to a suburban site. Bowers, Nelms & Fonville Inc. has put the Branch House on the market, with an asking price of $2.5 million, according to John Gentry of the real estate company.
Prominent Virginian Victim of Bronchitis at His Villa in Italian City. OWNED RARE ART WORKS Wife and a Daughter With Him at End—Will Be Buried in Richmond. FLORENCE, Italy, July 2 (AP)-- John Kerr Branch, wealthy resident of Richmond, Va., died last night of bronchitis at his residence here. He was 65 years old.
Name: John Braymer, PhD Job title: President and CEO of the Virginia Center for Architecture, which opened on April 1, 2005. Housed in a city and state historic landmark and designed by John Russell Pope, the Center is located at 2501 Monument Avenue and operates as a museum of architecture with educational programs for youth and adults.
Dominion General Counsel, PC's main office is located in the historic Branch House, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2003, the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation purchased the landmark as part of its golden anniversary.
