White House On: On 14 June Halleck ordered General Dix, commanding at Fort Monroe, to send an expedition to threaten Richmond and destroy the railroad bridges over the South and North Anna rivers. Dix drew troops from Suffolk and Norfolk, and on the 24th Colonel Spear, with about 1,200 men of the llth Pennsylvania, 2d Massachusetts and 12th Illinois cavalry, was sent by water up York River, landed at White House on the 25th, marched through Hanover Court House and on the 26th attacked and captured about 100 men of the 44th North Carolina at the bridge of the Virginia Central Railroad over the South Anna, burned the bridge and returned to White House on the morning of the 27th.
Upon Spear's return Dix organized an expedition of 10,000 men, under General Getty, to destroy the bridge of the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad over the South Anna, and an expedition of 6,000 men and 14 guns, under General Keyes, to threaten Richmond by seizing Bottom's Bridge over the Chickahominy. Both expeditions moved from White House on 1 July. Keyes failed to accomplish anything, being held in check by a small force under Gen. D. H. Hill. Getty, preceded by Spear's cavalry, marched from White House to Hanover Court House, which he occupied on the 4th, his advance reaching the bridge over the South Anna late in the day and making an attack, which was repulsed by Gen.
In-Depth : The House of Spiritual Retreat by Emilio Ambasz
Emilio Ambasz originally designed the House of Spiritual Retreat in 1979 for an imaginary site near Cordoba, Spain.
It was constructed only last year, on a hilly, arid landscape outside of Seville.
Featuring two white walls situated at a ninety-degree angle and a long stairway descending into a sunken patio, the house reformulates the vernacular Andalusian courtyard house into a surrealistic reverie, a mythic, phantasmagorical dwelling.
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