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 …
Architect/builder unknown Post-1765 2408 Bainbridge Street This one and a half story frame house set upon an English basement in the Swansboro neighborhood, a suburb of what was the City of Manchester from 1769-1910, is the essence of simplicity. Well, almost. The original three-bay front facade that contained a central front door flanked by …
1882 2025 Burford Rd In the late 19th century, before the advent of residential air conditioning, well to do Richmonders escaped the summer heat by retreating to Bon Air, a resort community west of the city. The best off among them could keep a private summer residence, but many others took up rooms at the …
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 …
This article comes to us from guest writer Robert Winthrop. Winthrop is partner at Winthrop, Jenkins, and Associates, a Virginia based architecture firm specializing in historic renovation. Historic buildings have also been his focus in numerous writings and lectures. As author of The Architecture of Jackson Ward, Cast and Wrought: The Architectural Metalwork of Downtown Richmond, Virginia, …
1812 East Grace St. c. 1784 Architect unknown For a hint of what 18th century Richmond might have looked like there are few better places to examine than the Adam Craig House, an evocative dwelling that sits kitty-corner at the southeast corner of the intersection of East Grace and North 19th streets in Shockoe Bottom. …
711 St. Christopher’s Rd. Baskervill and Son (original campus) Various architects (later buildings) For more than a century, St. Christopher’s School has been preparing Richmond boys for entry into Virginia’s elite. The school now educates children from Kindergarten through the 12th grade, leading them up an education staircase and leaving them at the front door …
2 North Fifth St 1808 One of the best examples of American federal architecture in a city with a dearth of it is the Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House, a courtly two story brick house in the Capitol District. The structure is easily associated with typical of federal-style architecture with its low roof pitch and strong geometries on …
Architect: Todd Dykshorn Architecture, Suellen Gregory Interior Design Dates: 1866, 2010 Address: 1217 East Cary Street On the corner of 13th and Cary Streets in Shockoe Slip is one of Richmond’s most captivating restaurant spaces. Urban Farmhouse Market & Café is a 1,500 square foot coffeehouse and cafe specializing in local and organic foods. Fueled …