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Visitor center, Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial

12 July 2016 (photograph)

A 2016 photograph of the visitor center at the Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial. It is a modern site building with little direct link to Henry himself.

Shows the modern entry point to the memorial on Henry's former estate, which is where visitors first learn about his life there.

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A single-story gray clapboard building with a brick chimney, dark shingled roof, and a central dark wooden entrance door under a small porch, set on a lawn surrounded by mature green trees under a blue sky with clouds.
Ser Amantio di Nicolao, Visitor center, Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial, 12 July 2016. Wikimedia Commons.

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What it is

This is a 2016 photograph of the visitor center at the Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial. It shows a single-story gray clapboard building with a brick chimney, a dark shingled roof, and a central dark wooden door under a small porch. It sits on a lawn among mature trees.

Why it matters

The visitor center is a modern building on the memorial grounds, where Patrick Henry lived from 1794 until his death in 1799. Its role is to welcome visitors and explain the site, so it tells us more about how the memorial is presented today than about Henry's own life. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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  • What does the design of this building suggest about the site it serves?
  • Why might a memorial place a modern building near a historic home?
  • What does a photo of the entrance leave out about the history of the land?

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