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A new book from MIT Press tells the trailblazing story of Black female architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith and her role in shaping the Black middle class.
Hampton University founder Samuel Chapman Armstrong's signaled his new school's importance with a building campaign that drew national attention.
Hampton University played an indispensable role in creating Depression-era Aberdeen Gardens and protecting this model black community from white attempts to stop it.
Is Virginia the Most Stylish State in America? These 17 Old Dominion design visionaries—and their indelible marks on American style and taste—make a rather convincing case. By Ellen McGauley Pierre Leclerc PhotographyGetty Images Call it the Commonwealth of Chic. As an A-list of early Virginians laid out a vision for a new American democracy in Colonial Gotham and Philadelphia, at home, they quietly sowed the seeds of a fourth branch of government, one that would deliver centuries of design precedent. Indeed, one could argue there's aesthetic prodigy rooted deep in the soil of Vi...