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 …
Harrison Albright, architect; 1906 expansion by Peebles & Ferguson Architects; 2017 renovation by Commonwealth Architects 1904 Northwest Corner of North Ninth and East Grace streets Capitol Square has been encircled by taverns or hotels since it was laid out in the 1780s. Indeed, The Commonwealth at the corner of Ninth and Bank streets at the …
1816 400 Hospital Street Beth Shalome, the oldest Jewish congregation in Virginia, founded the Hebrew Cemetery on Shockoe Hill in 1816. The congregation had outgrown its existing burial ground which remains at its original site near 21st and Franklin Streets in Shockoe Bottom. The new burial ground predates the neighboring Shockoe Hill Cemetery by eight years. …
Carneal & Johnston 1913, addition 1990 201 W. Marshall St. The Richmond Dairy Apartments is an idiosyncratic and beloved building. It is a Tudor-Revival, fortress-like former manufacturing structure into which three, 40 foot masonry milk bottles have been inserted at strategic exterior building corners. Fifty years after its construction, Philadelphia architects Robert Venturi and Denise …
George H. Johnson, architect 1866 Glave Newman Anderson Architects (restoration and adaptive reuse, 1976) 1007-1011 E. Main St. The Ironfronts building played an important part in the drama of Richmond’s rebuilding efforts after a devastating fire in April 1865 that destroyed some 800 buildings in the heart of the Confederate capital city. However, to understand …
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. …
Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Mass. 2016 Connecting the southwestern end of Brown’s Island with West 10th Street in Manchester Since the turn of the 21st century, residents and visitors alike have fully embraced the downtown riverfront for its natural beauty, historic industrial infrastructure and sweeping vistas of the downtown and Manchester skylines. A riverfront focal point …
Forum Architects, St. Louis 2015 800 East Canal St. The Gateway Plaza building, whose primary tenant is the McGuire Woods law firm, occupies a prominent site in the Financial District that had long been slated for a signature high rise building. The Richmond Downtown Master Plan called for a structure with a clearly defined base, …
1860 205 N. 19th St. The Pace-King Mansion sits in Shockoe Bottom, the bustling urban district anchored by the 17th Street Farmer’s Market. Richmond got its start here, and successive waves of growth have radiated outward. Despite centuries of change, including the explosion of commercial construction around the turn of the 20th century, some relics …