Architects: Cram and Ferguson, with Carneal, Johnston and Wright, associate architect. Date: 1931 Address: Blanton Avenue in Byrd Park. During World War I, many European towns promised to silence the bells of their town halls and churches until victory over Germany. When peace finally did occur in November 1919, bells all over northern Europe …
Architect: Wilson, Harris and Richards Dates: 1901 Address: 1500 East Main St Known simply as The Clock Tower to many passing its ornate tower on Interstate 95, the Renaissance Revival train station in Shockoe Bottom stands as an historic and current icon of Richmond. Built in 1901 as the city’s premiere railroad destination servicing Seaboard …
Architect: John Russell Pope Dates: 1917-1919 Address: 2500 West Broad St Now known as a primary educational and cultural feature of the city, the inscribed words “Union Station of Richmond” upon the Science Museum’s facade underneath a grand clock recall the honored past of the proud neoclassical edifice as a beacon for transportation, a gateway …
Carrère and Hastings 1892-1895 101 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA The Jefferson Hotel is one of the finest examples of Beaux Arts architecture in the city, and certainly one of the grandest. Conceived and funded in 1892 by Gilded Age Richmond business leader Lewis Ginter, the design was carried out by Carrère and Hastings, a top …
Architect: Elijah Myers Dates: 1886 – 1894 Address: 1001 East Broad St Occupying an entire city block on Broad St between 10th and 11th streets, Old City Hall stands powerfully with one side to the historic capitol grounds, and the other side catty-corner its functional replacement. Impossible to miss, a proud juxtaposition to the radically …
Marcellus Wright Sr., Charles Custer Robinson, and Charles M. Robinson 1925 – 1927 6 N. Laurel Street, Richmond VA Conceived in 1918, what is now Richmond’s Altria Theater was built as the city’s largest Shriner meeting house. Created largely through the work of Clinton L. Williams, the chapter’s potentate, the building’s program originally included a …