Azurest South

Azurest South
Location 2900 Boisseau St. Ettrick, VA 23803
Coordinates 37°14′24″N 77°25′9″W / 37.24000°N 77.41917°W / 37.24000; -77.41917Coordinates: 37°14′24″N 77°25′9″W / 37.24000°N 77.41917°W / 37.24000; -77.41917
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1938
Architect Meredith, Amaza Lee; Holmes, Russell
Architectural style International Style
NRHP reference # 93001464[1]
VLR # 020-5583
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 30, 1993
Designated VLR October 20, 1993[2]

Azurest South, the home and workplace of Amaza Lee Meredith (one of the nation’s first black female architects) is one of the few examples in Virginia, United States of the Post World War I German style: International Style. Meredith was the founder of the fine arts department of Virginia State University in 1930. She shared the home with her companion, Dr. Edna Meade Colson, dean of the Virginia State University School of Education.[3] When Meredith died, she left half of the property's interest to the Virginia State University National Alumni Association, and after Colson's death, the association purchased the other half of the estate.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]

Azurest South displays "a fascination with modernity, a familiarity with new materials and construction details, and a love of nature."[4] The building is located in a dell on the eastern edge of campus.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Calder Loth; Mary Harding Sadler; James Hill (September 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Azurest South" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying four photos
  4. 1 2 Loth, Calder, ed. (1995). Virginia Landmarks of Black History: Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. pp. 17–19. ISBN 0813916003.
  5. ↑ Sadler, Mary Harding (2004). "Amaza Lee Meredith". In Wilson, Dreck Spurlock. African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary 1865-1945. New York: Routledge. pp. 280–282. ISBN 0415929598.


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