Architect: Jackson C. Gott Date: 1888-1893 Address: 101-107 West Broad Street Conceived by a planning, financing and laboring of over 40 years by the Virginia Masons, the former Masonic Temple is impossible to miss on Broad Street. It is Richmond’s clearest manifestation of Richardsonian Romanesque, an American style characterized by a robust geometry and massing, …
Architect: Wilfred E. Cutshaw Date: 1891 Address: 101 S. Linden St. 2010 renovation and expansion by Moseley Architects (lead), Smith+McClane Architects (exterior) and Hastings+Chiverta Architects (consulting) There may be no more popular building on the Virginia Commonwealth University Monroe Park campus than the Cary Street Gym on the southern edge of the sprawling grounds. This …
Architect: 3North (renovation) Date: 2007 (renovation) Address: 1812 West Main Street Founded in 1963 as the Hand Workshop by Elisabeth Scott Bocock, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s first location was in Church Hill. The original mission promoted showcasing and instructing crafts of both established artists and the city’s youth. It moved into its …
1780, original layout by Thomas Jefferson and Directors of Public Works 1816, first landscaping plan by Maximilian Godefroy. 1850-1860, second landscaping plan by John Notman Bounded by Ninth, Bank, Governor and Capitol streets (the latter two now closed to vehicular traffic) A prominent Broadway producer and native Virginian, the late Richmond Crinkley once said …
Date: 1753 Address: 215 S. Wilton Rd. Constructed in 1753, the Wilton House Museum is among the oldest buildings in Richmond. Originally, it served as the rural plantation home of the influential Randolph clan, one of the First Families of Virginia. It was moved to its current location in Richmond’s affluent West End …
Architect: Cram and Ferguson, architect; Carneal and Johnston, associate architect; Warren Manning Associates, landscape architect. Date: 1914 Address: 28 Westhampton Way Many Richmond commercial and residential areas developed westward after the installation of electric streetcars in 1888. The University of Richmond, which was located near the intersection of today’s Lombardy and Grace streets, established a …
Architect: Schmidt, Garden and Erikson Date: 1940 Address: 1100 Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1) Nowhere in Richmond do building location, architecture and unifying graphics come together more powerfully and memorably than at the Model Tobacco building, a former factory that is one of six buildings in an industrial neighborhood of South Richmond. This six …
Architect: Carneal, Johnston and Wright, Restoration by BCWH with Saddler and Whitehead Date: 1938, expansion in 1963, restoration in 2002 Address: 1000 N Lombardy St Maggie Walker High School’s creation is the result of several incidents occurring at the same time. In 1934, Richmond icon Maggie L. Walker passed, and the city wished to honor her name in …
Architect: Carrére and Hastings Dates: 1891 Address: 401 W. Franklin St. The Commonwealth Club is one of Richmond’s most historic and opulent private clubs and its building reflects this. Founded in 1890, The Commonwealth Club was a social gathering place with facilities for dining, fitness, and drinking. Initially the club commissioned a local architect but …
Architect: Johannas Design Group Date: 2009 Address: 1708 West Cary St Johannas Design Group’s buildings have been known for blending a touch of modernism with influences from Richmond’s historic vernacular. The Mews at Cary Mill is definitely more of the former. The project takes an original approach to the porched town house typology of Richmond, …