History Thursday: Henry Deane & the Domestic Architecture of African Americans

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October 17, 2024

Deane and his wife Lucy financed the construction of 19 houses in the Liberty Town neighborhood of Fredericksburg between the late 1880s and 1908.

By Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENTEmail Adele

The area of Fredericksburg known as “Liberty Town”—around Liberty and George streets near Maury Stadium—tells a story of African American entrepreneurship and homeownership in the early years of enforced segregation.

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Between the late 1880s and 1909, Henry and Lucy Deane financed the construction of 19 houses and two stables on land they owned in this part of town, according to an article on African American domestic architecture by Gary Stanton, emeritus professor of historic preservation at the University of Mary Washington,.

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