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Glasgow, Ellen, House

Richmond (Independent City), Virginia
County of Richmond (City).
National Register Number: 71001041
 Resource type: Building.
Property type: Domestic - single dwelling.
Certified Local Government: YES

Statement of Significance (as of designation - November 11, 1971):
From 1887 until her death, this was the residence of author Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945), whose books reveal much about Virginia society from the 1850s through the 1940s. Her book, IN THIS OUR LIFE, won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature (1941).


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