Rice House
You are here
The Huts (Rice House)
1919. 303 S. Franklin St.
-
(Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
Ethel Rice moved to Christiansburg after living in Rhodesia for many years with her late husband, William, a tobacco executive. Working with the town's builders to combine locally available architectural elements with African-inspired forms, she created the brick building known as The Huts. At the core of her unique residence is a conically roofed circular brick section of approximately twenty feet in diameter. Clustered around it are three smaller circular units positioned in the north, east, and south quadrants. Local features are the one-over-one windows and metal roof. From this fusion of Christiansburg and Rhodesian building practices emerged a remarkable work.
Writing Credits
×
Data
-
Location: Christiansburg, VirginiaRegional Overviews:Types:Styles:no metadata available
What's Nearby
Citation
Anne Carter Lee, "The Huts (Rice House)", [Christiansburg, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-MO4.
Print Source
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 429-429.
If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.
SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.