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portico. The remains of the dead lie in a crypt below the portico. On the monument, the names of the male victims face Broad Street, and the female victims' names appear on the remaining three sides. Six of the known victims were black, including at least one slave. Their six names are carved below the names of the sixty-six white victims on the monument's base. Although the monument lists only 72 victims, at least 76 were known to have died in the blaze or in the days immediately following the disaster.
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The theatre had multiple exits: a little known side-door was used by those in the orchestra and back stage while an upper balcony exit was a clear way out. In the panic of the fire, many people were pushed and fell, and they were unable to escape. Many people jumped out of the windows of the theatre.
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from one hanging scene to the other; there were 35 such hanging scenes which could be lowered. In addition to the hangings were also the borders that provided the outlines of buildings and skies, among other set pieces; these, too, caught fire sequentially. Pine planks (with shingles over them) fixed
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The fire started after the curtain fell following the first act of the pantomime, when the chandelier was lifted toward the ceiling with the flame still lit. The lamp became entangled in the cords used to lift the chandelier and it touched one of the items used in the front scenes, which caught fire.
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A new theater, the third to be known as the Richmond Theatre, was built in Richmond in 1819, at a cost of US $ 40,000. It was built of brick at the corner of H and Seventh Street with a well-equipped stage and popular motif ornamentation. Within view of the site of the fire at the original theater,
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at a shop near the theatre. Along with Dr. James McCaw, a physician who was attending the theatre that evening, Hunt was credited with saving close to a dozen people. McCaw would lower them from the burning second story, and Hunt would catch them. Hunt also saved McCaw, who jumped just as a burning
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The Richmond Theatre fire of 1811 was not the first fire to claim a theatre of that name in the city of Richmond. An earlier Richmond Theatre was destroyed by fire on 23 January 1798. That earlier theatre was originally known as Quesnay's Academy (short for its formal title Academy of Fine Arts and
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The marble monument in the form of an urn erected at the church contains the names of 72 victims of the fire, inscribed on its four cardinal faces. The monument is enclosed within a wire fence. It is located in the central yard of the memorial church, in the middle of the church's front or main
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when he visited Richmond in 1824; William Mayo of Powhatan; and the Chamberlayne family. Three Richmond congregations were formed from Monumental, including: St. James's in 1831, St. Paul's in 1845 and All Saints in 1888. Deconsecrated in 1965, it was given by the
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In 2004, Monumental Church underwent a significant renovation, although the bodies of the victims are still in a brick crypt below the church. During the renovation, the original monument to the 72 people killed in the fire was replaced by an exact replica. The
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to erect a church at the site, as a further commemoration of the victims of the fire. City Council also sanctioned an amount of US$ 5,000 as its contribution toward the building of the church by the "Association for building a church on Shockoe Hill". Thus the
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On December 27, 1811, the Common Council commissioned a Committee of Investigation, which absolved the Placide & Green Theater Company of responsibility and blamed the inferior design and construction of the theater building for the great loss of life.
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Duveen & Klickstein, Denis I. and Herbert S. (July 1955). "Alexandre-Marie Quesnay De Beaurepaire's: Mémoire et prospectus, concernant l'Académie des Sciences et Beaux Arts des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique, établie à Richemond, 1788".
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over rafters with no plastering and ceiling spread the flames, which fell from the ceiling and spread extremely rapidly. The impact of the fire was worsened because the stage curtain hid the initial flames from the audience.
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Many members of the upper echelons of Richmond society were in attendance on the night of the fire, and many were killed; among the dead were listed Pages, Nelsons, and Braxtons, all members of some of the
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the builders of the new theater made specific mention in their publicity of the fact that the building had adequate doors for people to escape, in case of any emergency situation.
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Gilbert Hunt, who helped save numerous lives on the night of the fire, became the subject of a biography published to provide an income for him during his old age
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Sciences of the United States) and opened on October 10, 1786 in a performance given by the Old American Company of Comedians under the management of
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As soon as the boy worker who was operating the cords saw the flames, he fled the building. The flames rose up the scenery and spread in the
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program in Richmond on November 20, 1817. Famous parishioners included Chief Justice John Marshall, whose family occupied pew No. 23;
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
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follows the process of using laser scanning to recreate the monument in computers, then sending the data to Ireland, where
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used both high technology computer equipment and old-fashioned stone-cutting tools to create a new 7,000 pound monument.
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of 1788 because the building had a capacity of 1600 people, more than the temporary Virginia Capitol building had.
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was built on the Richmond Theatre site between 1812 and 1814 to commemorate those who had died from the fire. The
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between what is now Twelfth and College Streets. The fire killed 72 people, including Virginia's governor
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Of the 72 who died in the fire, 54 were women and 18 were men. Among the victims were Virginia's sitting
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saved over thirty people from the theater during the fire, having been in attendance at the performance.
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and John Bignall who operated it until the 1798 fire. During their tenure, the theatre was host to the
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The ordinance for building a monument for the victims was further modified by a resolution of the
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was built on the site of the destroyed theatre to commemorate the victims of the fire
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church, commissioned by U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, was designed by architect
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Others who were assembled near the window were afraid to do so. The editor of the
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Theatre in the United States: a documentary history, Volume 1; Volumes 1750–1915
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section of wall was about to fall on him. Today Hunt is memorialized by a
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The Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences of the United States was founded by
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Robert Russell, College of Charleston Department of Historic Preservation
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as a testament to that fact. The church was built in an octagonal shape.
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by Rachel Beanland depicts the Richmond Theatre Fire and its aftermath.
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and his daughter. The program was a double billing: first, a play by
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Evans, Mrs. Wm. E., "The History of the Monumental Church," 1817.
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The second Richmond Theatre was built through the advocacy of
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Christian, Frances Archer; Massie, Susanne Williams (2006).
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The performance on the evening of December 26, 1811, was a
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The Anniversary of the Destruction of the Richmond Theatre
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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
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In 2006, regular tours began, in cooperation with the
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Also credited with heroism was Gilbert Hunt, a former
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who, having purchased his freedom, was working as a
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37°32′20″N 77°25′48″W / 37.538902°N 77.429876°W / 37.538902; -77.429876
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Virginia
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Broad Street
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American Revolutionary War
French Academy of Sciences
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John Marshall
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