Thomas S. Stewart 1843-1845. 1890, alterations to sanctuary. 1959, parish house and parking garage, Baskervill and Son. 1992 renovation to parish house. 815 East Grace Street St. Paul’s, with its grand and prominent location immediately across Ninth Street from the vehicular gateway to Capitol Square, spectacular temple front in the Corinthian order of architecture, and …
At its opening in 1928, the Byrd Theatre was enthroned as the king of Richmond’s movie houses. Despite the better part of a century of developments in film technology in the theater, on the set, and in the editing room, the Byrd’s crown remains undisturbed, if slightly dulled by wear. The theatre’s single grand screening …
William Lawrence Bottomley 1924 1600 Monument Avenue A Special Announcement: ArchitectureRichmond would like to remind our readers to visit our Kickstarter page and make a commitment to architecture and design journalism in Richmond today. You can learn more about our Kickstarter campaign here. Thank you. The Stuart Court Apartments stands at the northwest corner of Stuart Circle …
Architect: Duhring Okie and Ziegler Dates: 1901 Address: 3421 Hawthorne Avenue The story of the Lewis Ginter Recreation Association, or LGRA, is linked inextricably to the development of the Ginter Park neighborhood. Wealthy Richmond tobacco baron Lewis Ginter built an early streetcar suburb north of the city beginning in the late 1800s. Today’s LGRA was …
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 …
Wilfred Emory Cutshaw 1883 200 West Marshall Street With the aid of a unique site, a storied neighborhood, the talents of a prolific architect, and a vital contemporary organization, Gallery 5 has developed as rich a narrative as nearly any building in Richmond. A venue for visual and performance art, the gallery often brings hundreds …
1871 1301 East Cary Street No building in Richmond is more obviously responsive to its site than the Columbian Block. Neither named nor remembered for the imaginative hand of its unknown architect, the building has taken every possible cue from the block on which it sits. Thankfully, its prominent location on a slightly acute corner …
Architects: Bascom Rowlett, Davis Brothers Date: 1926 Address: 3418 – 3450 Grove Avenue On an unassuming block of Grove Avenue stands English Village, a development almost 90 years old and deeply embedded in Richmond’s architectural heritage. Yet at its conception in the early 20th century it was a break from the typical financial and spatial …
Muhlenburg Bros. with Noland & Baskervill 1903 900 West Franklin The Chesterfield Apartments opened in November 1903 as Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building. It was also the first building of its scale on the prosperous blocks of West Franklin Street near Monroe Park. The building holds a cherished place in Richmond’s collective memory as the home …
Architect: Albert Lybrock Date: 1853 Address: 219-223 Governor Street Morson’s Row is the most handsome assemblage of attached houses in Richmond. These three former dwellings in the Italianate style establish an axial relationship at the eastern end of the pedestrian mall that was once Capitol Street while gently stepping down to reflect the slope of …