COLONIAL HEIGHTS RECREATION & PARKS
VIOLET BANK MUSEUM

Violet Bank Museum is located at 303 Virginia Avenue - one block off the Boulevard at South end of Colonial Heights. Numerous Historic displays, artifacts, and period furniture are on display. Group tours are welcomed.

The present building replaces the first house constructed by Thomas Shore, destroyed by fire in 1810, and rebuilt by his widow, Jane Grey and her second husband, Henry Haxall. It is a superb document of Federal design and American Interior Decorative Arts. Violet Bank is on the National Register of Historic Landmark.

With an interpretive period spanning over half a century, from 1815 to 1873, the Museum maintains a wide array of artifacts: guns, furniture, glass & ceramics, textiles, accoutrements, books, swords, and other items.

Owned and operated by the City of Colonial Heights, The Violet Bank Museum boasts some of the most sophisticated and beautiful Adam-style ceiling moldings in the country, as well as original woodwork, doors, fireplaces and floors.

Violet Bank served as General Robert E. Lee's Headquarters from June 8, 1864 to November 1, 1864. The museum is opened to the public all year at the following times:

Phone:  804-520-9395 for information.