Agecroft Hall

This Tudor manor house overlooking the James River in Richmond is a genuine English building, dismantled in Lancashire in the 1920s and reassembled here by an American businessman. Dating in parts to the fifteenth century, it displays half-timbering, leaded windows, and a great hall furnished with Tudor and Stuart antiques. Surrounding gardens re-create English designs, including a sunken garden and knot garden overlooking the river valley. As a museum, it offers a study of Elizabethan domestic life transplanted to Virginia.