Hord Coplan Macht, architect 2023 1661 Roseneath Rd Otis, a 483,000 square foot residential behemoth, is more brawn than beautiful. But it’s a well-articulated part of Scott’s Addition, a district that has recently been transformed from an urban flatland of light industrial buildings, surface parking lots, and a smattering of modest houses and duplexes into …
Wilfred Emory Cutshaw 1887 1113 W Moore St The Moore Street School opened in 1887, an early example of a post-Civil War school built for Richmond’s African American children. The school served the neighborhood of Carver, in one form or another, until February, 2000, when it became a surplus property. (The southern end of …
Duncan Lee in association with Marion J. Dimmock (Johannas Design Group, 2004 interior renovations) 500 N. Allen Ave. 1909 The Orchard House Middle School, a private school for girls, occupies a stately three story brick Italianate building near the intersection of Allen and Monument Avenues. The school was established in 1998, but it hadn’t …
Benton & Bengtson (1923 parish hall) and Wysong, Bengtson & Jones, architects (1931 sanctuary) 1923 1100 West Grace St — Bethlehem Lutheran Church, commanding a quiet intersection at western edge of the VCU Monroe Park campus, is a neo-Gothic, red brick, stone and concrete architectural gem. Its beautiful proportions and exquisite detailing belie the fact …
Carneal and Johnston 1908 2007 Monument Avenue In the popular imagination, the Fan may be a neighborhood of townhouses, but it also contains apartment buildings of many shapes and sizes. No street displays this diversity better than Monument Avenue. Walking down the avenue today, it is easy to spot the larger and grander of …
Architect unknown, Curtis Carter, builder 1814 100 E. Main St. If the brickwork of the understatedly elegant, two story residence at the northeast corner of First and Main streets in Monroe Ward appears excellent there’s a reason. Curtis Carter, a skilled Richmond bricklayer, performed the construction himself, completing the house in 1814. Carter owned …
Charles M. Robinson, architect 1926 3400 Patterson Ave. Architect Charles Robinson was as well-known for designing handsome and enduring Richmond public schools as he was for his collegiate architectural efforts, including work at James Madison and Virginia State universities and the College of William & Mary. The design of Albert H. Hill Middle School, which …
Harvey L. Page, architect 1888 901 W. Franklin St. Virginia Commonwealth University is the steward of dozens of fine, century-old, former residential structures along the historic West Franklin Street corridor. But few are as eye-popping as the VCU Administration Building which anchors the southwest corner of the campus’ primary intersection of West Franklin and Shafer …
Carneal and Johnston, and Vincent Kling Associates (west pavilion) 1956, 1989 (west pavilion) 330 S. Fourth St. Many people mistake the pristine white New Market Corporation headquarters building for the state Capitol. The impressive Palladianesque edifice is an architectural beacon for motorists and cyclists approaching downtown from the Lee Bridge. The horizontally elongated structure, which …
Hickok Cole Architects, with Fultz and Singh 2022 21 E 4th St In recent years, new apartment buildings have proliferated in Richmond, especially in the formerly industrial districts of Manchester and Scott’s Addition. These buildings, often five or six stories tall and a full block long, have played an important role in bringing more …