Wickham House Stories

The historic Wickham House allows us to tell the complex story of the Wickham family and the home’s enslaved occupants, revealing the realities of urban slavery and life in early 1800s Richmond. The Wickham House was later purchased by Mann S. Valentine II, and in 1898 became the first home of the Valentine Museum. Today, guided, dialogue-based tours focus on the period of Wickham ownership during the early Federal period and include stories of the free and enslaved inhabitants of the home as well as the Wickham family. Tours are available on the hour from 11-4 p.m., Tuesday-Sunday, typically last 45-minutes and are included in museum admission.

Wickham House

Court End Neighborhood

Originally considered part of Shockoe Hill, the Court End neighborhood gained its current name in the 1920s and 1930s when historic preservationists started referring to it as Court End.

A beige stucco house with central covered portico and steps down to a brick sidewalk in Richmond, Virginia.

Exploring History in the Wickham House

Richmond's grand Federal period home holds the stories of free and enslaved inhabitants.

Individuals Enslaved by the Wickhams

Silhouette of a Black woman wearing her hair up and possilby covered.

Wickham House: Amy Green

As an enslaved Richmonder, Amy Green lived and worked at the Wickham House in the early to mid-1800s until she was institutionalized in Williamsburg, Virginia.