Ethel Bailey Furman (addition) 1884 sanctuary, 1964 addition by Furman 2800 P Street From the grand gothic cathedrals at Chartres and Canterbury to the more earthly scale of an average American parish, church buildings have always changed with time and with the shifting needs of their congregations. Once the main sanctuary is complete, common additions …
Samuel Sloan, architect 1853 and additions 1911, 1917 and 1930 additions 500 N. 25th St. As you travel through many cities and towns in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states, it’s hard not to be struck by the steeples of nineteenth and early 20th century churches that rise majestically above what were once densely-built residential …
Henry Grant Morse, architect and Charles Gillette, landscape architect 1926 (incorporating major elements moved from a c.1500 house in Lancashire, England) 4305 Sulgrave Road In 1926 when prominent Richmond businessman and Anglophile Thomas C. Williams was developing his family farm, Windsor, into Windsor Farms, located just west of Richmond in what was then Henrico County, …
Carneal & Johnston, architect, and Architecture Design Office (ADO), renovation architect 1917, renovated 2019 1000 Carlisle Ave. Aside from the Capitol, and the New Market Corporation headquarters atop Gambles Hill, no building occupies a Richmond riverfront hilltop so majestically as the Schoolhouse at Artisan Hill. The former Robert S. Fulton School served Richmond public elementary students …
Hallett and Pratt, architect and Edward H. Winks, James Snowa, restoration architects 1921, restoration 2001 1301 West Broad Street The stretch of West Broad Street that cuts through the Virginia Commonwealth University Monroe Park campus from Belvidere to Lombardy streets is lined with mostly sprawling and architecturally uninspired dormitories, sports facilities and other institutional buildings. But …
3201 Brook Road 1800-1875 Architect/contractor unknown Note: this building was demolished by Union Presbyterian Seminary in January 2021, more than a year after the article below was written. A picturesque Italianate villa named “Westwood” (and sometimes called the McGuire Cottage) is nestled among large shade trees in the middle of the 3200 block of Broad …
architect unknown 1844 15 S. Fifth St. “William Barret’s mansion at Fifth and Cary marks the high point of Classic Revival architecture in Richmond,” wrote the late Mary Wingfield Scott, Richmond’s esteemed architectural historian and author in her masterful survey, “Old Richmond Neighborhoods.” Built in 1844, not only is the two-story, stucco-over-brick house well-articulated and …
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 …
1015 East Clay St. Alexander Parris 1812 New England builder and architect Alexander Parris visited Richmond in the early 1800s and left a considerable architectural legacy. He designed the Executive Mansion, but more grand was his design for the John Wickham house. It originally anchored the northeast corner of an entire Court End city block …
800 East Grace Street Architect unknown 1834. 1855, transept Perhaps unfairly overshadowed by St. Paul’s, the larger and more lavishly articulated church across the street, St. Peter’s Catholic Church is a nonetheless a wonderful presence on the downtown streetscape. Its temple front in the Doric order is a classical structure of solid beauty. This sanctuary …