Architects: Robert Mills, Petticord Associates Date: 1818, Museum and renovation 1976 Address: 1201 East Clay Street The Museum of the Confederacy’s main building, completed in 1976, was built to house the institution’s collection of confederate artifacts, the nation’s largest. The institution is the oldest museum in Richmond, founded in 1890, and includes on its grounds …
Architect: Robert Mills Date: 1812 Address: 1224 E Broad St Holding a more prominent location on Broad Street in Court End but perhaps more forgotten than the adjacent Egyptian Building, Monumental Church was constructed thirty years prior to the MCV landmark and remains as an equally important structure. The church was constructed in memoriam of the …
Architect: Thomas Jefferson & Charles-Louis Clérisseau Dates: 1785 Address: 1000 Bank Street Richmond Va Virginia’s State Capitol building sits atop Shockoe (Capitol) Hill and faces out past the skyscrapers of downtown to the river. Architects Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Thomas Jefferson followed the principles of Italian baroque architect Andrea Palladio on selecting the building’s site; …
Thomas S. Stewart 1845 1200 E. Marshall Street Richmond VA Among all the buildings in Richmond, the Egyptian Building is certainly one of the most unusual. It was erected in 1845 as the home for Hampden-Sydney College’s Medical school, the first in the south. Now part of the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU …