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Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia, is a premier example of the Grand American Avenue city planning style.
The first monument, a statue of Robert E. Lee was erected in 1890.
Between 1900 and 1925, Monument Avenue exploded with architecturally significant houses, churches and apartment buildings.
A tree-lined grassy mall divides the east and west-bound sides of the street and is punctuated by statues memorializing Virginian Confederate participants of the Civil War Robert E. Lee, J. E. B.
Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson, and two additional Richmond natives " Father of the Seas " Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Arthur Ashe, an international tennis star.
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