This unusual-looking Episcopal church structure was built in 1812 as a
memorial to more than seventy persons, including the Governor of
Virginia, who lost their lives in a fire which destroyed a theatre on
this site on December 26, 1811. In this theatre Edgar Allan Poe’s mother
had acted a few short months before, and in this same theatre the
Virginia Convention of 1788 had ratified the Federal Constitution. ¶
_Proceed west on Broad (Passing Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Building) to Twelfth, turn right on Twelfth to Marshall, turn right on
Marshall to center of block._
[Illustration: _The Egyptian Building · Medical College of
Virginia_]