Jacob Ege ca. 1750 1914 East Main Street Near the corner of 20th and Main streets in Shockoe Bottom sits the oldest building in Richmond. Known to many as the Old Stone House, it was built by German immigrant Jacob Ege around 1750 for himself and his wife. Their descendants retained ownership of the house …
Architect: Wiley Anderson Date: 1900 Address: 1211 Porter St Most of the architectural fabric that once made Porter Street the most fashionably attractive residential street in Manchester had fell victim to the wrecking ball by the 1970s. But one proud and important survivor is the Central United Methodist Church that anchors a corner of Porter …
Architect: Charles M. Robinson Date: 1915 Address: 201 East Brookland Park Boulevard Richmond Community is a public high school for gifted students in Richmond’s North Side. Their building was originally home to Chandler Middle School. In 1960, Chandler became the first public school in Richmond to racially integrate. Richmond Community boasts another first; founded in …
Architect: Samuel J. Collins, 1949 with addition by Winks-Snowa, 1996 Address: 909 Rennie Avenue Dates: 1949, 1996 Ginter Park is a dowager of Richmond neighborhoods with such distinguishing characteristics as magnificent shade trees, an eclectic collection of early 20th century domestic architecture and streets with grassy median strips that manage to be simultaneously rural and …
Albert West 1860 2000 East Broad St Today the New Light Baptist congregation calls a compact and august building home, an historic church that stands alone on a block in Shockoe Bottom. As the building’s historical marker notes, the original building served as the Trinity Methodist Church, whose congregation’s meeting at the bottom of Church …
Carl Max Lindner, Sr. 1928 503 Stuart Circle Richmond is often characterized by its strict grid plan. But among the pleasures of the Fan District are the street intersections where acute angles are formed by the juncture of many east-west streets as they extend from Monroe Park. Additional design opportunities occur at the intersections along …
Baskervill & Son Dooley Library – 1930, Addition – 1972 101 East Franklin Street On October 13th, 1924, after more than 20 years of effort, a group of civic activists opened the Richmond Public Library. The late Major Lewis Ginter’s former home at 901 West Franklin Street served as the first location. By 1930 a …
Architects: Samuel J. Collins and Richard E. Collins, (original complex,1956). Glave & Holmes Architects ( Paul and Phyliss Galanti Education Center and amphitheater, 2010). Dates: 1956, 2010 Address: 621 S. Belvidere St. There are few places in Richmond where memory, space and landscape meld more evocatively than at the Virginia War Memorial. This modernist, open …
Carneal & Johnston, Architects 1931 108 East Grace Street Sydnor and Hundley opened in 1931 on the fashionable Grace Street shopping corridor. The building was designed as offices and a showroom for one of city’s largest furniture dealers. Architects Carneal and Johnston were commissioned and the result is one of the most significant Art Deco …
Date: 1910 Address: 4308 Hermitage Road The large stone entrance gate at the intersection of Hermitage, Bellevue and Pope Avenues stands as a symbol of Richmond’s North Side, but also as a historical vestige of William Young’s 600 acre ‘Westbrook Estate’ in the late 1700s. The land was later subdivided, and purchased by Joseph Bryan, …