Frank Rushmore Watson, architect Philip Hubert Frohman, expansion architect 1928, expansion in 1950 6000 Grove Avenue At first glance, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church is a raw, gray mass of stone at the busy intersection of Grove Avenue and Three Chopt Road in the West End’s leafy Westhampton neighborhood.For those who have experienced the soaring, yet …
Thomas Ustick Walters; 2007 restoration by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architects and Engineers, P.C. 1841 1200 block East Broad Street In Court End, a district that boasts many architecturally distinguished buildings and many on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hunton Student Center is an elegant stand-out. This former church-turned student activities building was designed …
This article comes to us from guest writer Robert Winthrop. Winthrop is partner at Winthrop, Jenkins, and Associates, a Virginia based architecture firm specializing in historic renovation. Historic buildings have also been his focus in numerous writings and lectures. As author of The Architecture of Jackson Ward, Cast and Wrought: The Architectural Metalwork of Downtown Richmond, Virginia, …
1816 400 Hospital Street Beth Shalome, the oldest Jewish congregation in Virginia, founded the Hebrew Cemetery on Shockoe Hill in 1816. The congregation had outgrown its existing burial ground which remains at its original site near 21st and Franklin Streets in Shockoe Bottom. The new burial ground predates the neighboring Shockoe Hill Cemetery by eight years. …
Hill Colvin Linthicum, Sr., (sanctuary and parish hall) and Lee & Lee (addition to parish hall) 1912 (sanctuary and parish house), 1922 (addition to parish house) and 1961 (Administration Building) 3602 Hawthorne Avenue St. Thomas Episcopal Church, a charming Gothic Revival complex at 3600 Hawthorne Avenue, traces its beginnings to 1907 when Ginter Park was a …
3101 W. Clay St. 1940: City of Richmond Department of Public Works, architect 2016: Johannas Design Group, renovation architect While Scott’s Addition boasts diversity in the mix of uses found in its various buildings, the lasting architectural impression of the sprawling district are red brick and boxy, mid-20th century modern warehouses. True, there are some …
4026 MacArthur Avenue Adolph O. Budina 1937 MacArthur Avenue, in Northside’s Bellevue neighborhood, has become something of a destination for eating out with a number of intimate fine dining options joining a popular comfort food destination, Dot’s Back Inn, and the Stir Crazy coffee house. But the landmark on the street, albeit disfigured, is the …
2501 W Broad St Marcellus E. Wright 1925 Though it now shares the street with nearly deserted surface parking lots and fast food chains, the William Byrd Apartments stand as a relic of urban commerce and mass transit. Conceived as a bold commercial node to pair with the newly opened Broad Street Station across the …
Northwest corner of East Main and North Second streets Barry Starke 1972. 1998, redesigned Monroe Ward (the downtown district defined by Broad, Foushee and Belvidere streets and the James River) boasts some of Richmond’s most iconic architectural treasures: the Jefferson Hotel, the Commonwealth Club and Linden Row. What the neighborhood lacks however, is green space. …
Carl Ruehrmund, renovation by Hower Studio 1905, 2012 renovation 310 N. 33rd St. Compared to its diminutive neighbors, the Lava Lofts is a monument. In more urbane company, the building might not be so compelling, perhaps not even notable. But as it is, Lava Lofts is exemplary of a certain kind of urban relationship in …