page_title: Richard Snowden Andrews
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Snowden Andrews / Early life
caption_attribution_description: w:Weston State Hospital in w:Weston, West Virginia
context_page_description: Richard Snowden Andrews was an American architect and a Confederate artillery commander and diplomat during the American Civil War.
context_section_description: As recorded on the 1850 U.S. Census, Andrews was born in the District of Columbia and later moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Colonel Timothy Andrews. A prolific antebellum architect, he designed the Weston State Hospital in West Virginia, the largest hand-cut stone building in America, in Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles. His other commissions included the Maryland Governor's residence in Annapolis and the south wing of the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.
  Andrews' sister married Virginian Charles Marshall, who would become a key member of Robert E. Lee's staff during the war.
caption: Weston State Hospital
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