Violet Bank
The present building was built around 1815 as it is the domestic architecture of the federal period. There are two theories concerning the origin of the name “Violet Bank”.
(1) Because of the thousands of violets that covered the hillside.
(2) An allusion to the quotation from “Midsummer’s Night Dream – ‘the bank where the violets grow’”.
Thomas Shore, the owner, was a reader of Shakespeare and had a mult-volume set of the poet’s works in his library.
Marker is at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Arlington Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Virginia Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
