Jacob House

SA-63

In 1817 George Winston built the Jacob House nearby, in the development known as Sydney. Winston (1759-1826), a Quaker who built the first Richmond Friends Meeting House at 19th and Cary Streets about 1798, employed a large number of free black apprentices. An important builder here during this period, Winston participated in the construction of the Virginia State Capitol and the Virginia State Penitentiary. The Jacob House derives its name from John Jacob, an assistant superintendent at the Virginia State Penitentiary who bought the house in 1832. The building was moved to this site from 610 W. Cary Street in 1995.

Department of Historic Resources, 2003

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Drew St. J. Carneal, Richmond’s Fan District (Richmond: Council of Historic Resources Foundation, 1996); Virginia Lee Hutchenson Davis, Tidewater Virginia Families (Urbanna, Va.: Virginia Lee Hutchenson Davis, 1989), 503-508; Jacob House, Department of Historic Resources Archives File (127-461); Charles Pool and Dulaney Ward, “Plainly Significant: The Jacob House is a Window on Richmond Through the Centuries,” Richmond Journal of History and Architecture, 2 (Spring 1995): 1, 3-9; Harry M. Ward, Richmond: An Illustrated History (Northridge, Ca.: Winsor Publications, Inc., 1985).