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Cordelia &
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Gallery
BY LEE COGHLAN
Rappahannock News Special Writer
The word is out that Tanya Richey is vacating her Windflower Gallery at 307 Main Street, on the corner of Piedmont Street, in Washington. But a sign on the side of the yellow building will still read The Tanya Richey Studio. Mrs. Richey vacated the shop on June 1, but she will occupy the apartment above and show her work from there.
Regarding her decision to vacate the shop, Mrs. Richey says, “I love it here, but I don’t want to be here all the time. It doesn’t matter where I am. People find me. I’ve done shows in Scottsdale and I want to go back and do some more shows. But this is too nice a space to leave empty too long. It’s better to have someone here running it all the time.”
The building was built in the 1930’s as a community center. There was a pool hall downstairs. And the building was dubbed as the hospital, due to the large amount of blood donations.
Twenty years ago, Jane Krebser bought the building and opened an art gallery. She sold small, expensive European paintings^
Nan Thomasson was next with a folk and craft retail shop.
Then Mary Simmons moved her Rush River store into the space with her fine crafts and art gallery. And Mrs. Richey bought the building three years ago when her husband unexpectedly passed away.
Mrs. Richey has been ensconced as an artist in Washington since 1987, when she came back from an extensive trip to Europe.
Mrs. Richey says, “Washington was like living in Heidelberg (Germany) and Europe. This beautiful area hasn’t been touched. It’s village oriented, like Europe. It’s not a toy town, not a Disney. It’s one of the few villages that you still run into. The beauty brings people here and then the comraderie keeps them here.”
Susan McCarthy met Mrs. Richey years ago. Mrs. McCarthy had her own interior design business and has always been associated with the artistic community in Washington.
But now she is opening a business below Mrs. Richey’s studio and apartment. She is calling the shop, Cordelia & Company, after her mother’s grandmother, Cordelia Mann McGuire.
Mrs. McCarthy will sell all sort of
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