Branch House

Well-known American architect John Russell Pope designed the Branch House in 1916 as a winter residence for John Kerr Branch, a wealthy financier from a distinguished Virginia family. Pope also designed Broad Street Station, now Richmond's Science Museum, as well ...

The Oldest House on Branch Street

Henry Stackhouse built this

home of salt box design

c. 1815. The front porch was

added later. The cedar siding

resists the elements without

needing to be painted.

Marker is on Branch Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Plique – La Branche House

Erected about 1825 by Jean Felix Pinson and Maurice Pizetta, builder, sold by them in 1827 to Giraud M. Plique. Acquired in 1829 by Jean Baptiste La Branche, planter of St. Charles Parish, and occupied as his city residence until ...