Jean Longest

She has been active in the real estate business for over thirty years. In 1996 she was the recipient of the Adrien Bendheim award for the Richmond Association of Realtors, which acknowledges the Outstanding Realtor of the Year. For the last twenty-five or more years her production levels have qualified her for the RAR's Distinguished Achiever levels, and one year made the top-ten list of REALTORS in the RAR in production. Having been active in the residential real estate business since 1979, she enjoys excellent working relationships within the real estate community. Education is very important to her and she attends VCU as a continuing education student. The courses in Architectural History are of particular interest to her. She has completed all of the graduate courses in Architectural History and Urban Design and Planning to fulfill the requirements for the Certificate in Preservation that is offered by VCU. In June of 2011 she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from VCU and her original undergraduate degree is a B. S.in Business Administration from Bryant University in Rhode Island. She has also been fortunate to attend the University of Virginia as a graduate community scholar and has studied Architectural History under Professor Richard Guy Wilson Her husband is a retired professor of American Literature at the university and they have four grown children and nine grandchildren. Having grown up on the east end of Long Island, going to college in Providence, Rhode Island, and living in Chicago and upstate New York before coming to Virginia, she developed a great appreciation for architecture and urban living. She moved to Richmond in 1966 and has read many books on Richmond history and culture. Studying Richmond’s rich architecture is an avocation of hers. She particularly enjoys showing Richmond to newcomers and sharing her knowledge of local history and lore. She enjoys her work and career immensely and continues to grow and change with the industry. Long and Foster provides a great network of colleagues, technology, and marketing opportunities. She has enjoyed working with Long and Foster for the last eighteen years and was an associate broker at The Covington Company for twenty years before that.