The William H. Grant House, also known as Sheltering Arms Hospital, is a historic house located in

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. It was built in 1857, and is a large, three-story brick townhouse in the Italianate style. It features a small, richly ornamented arched front porch supported by coupled square columns. In 1892, the house was acquired by the

Sheltering Arms Hospital Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Centers (previously Sheltering Arms Hospital) are rehabilitation and health services facilities in the Greater Richmond Region of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a sta ...

, who occupied it until 1965. It is connected to the Benjamin Watkins Leigh House. an
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in 1969. Currently, the building is owned by

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. In 1968, the Virgini ...

and houses office space for the Department of Dermatology and Risk Management unit.

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