Architect (Restoration): Walter Parks Architects Date: Late 19th to early 20th century Address: 311 S. 11th Street In the vicinity of the 1100 block of Byrd Street, just east of the gleaming office towers of Riverfront Plaza and the Williams Mullins building, downtown’s topography shifts dramatically. This almost 100 foot change signals the dividing line …
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 …
Baskervill & Son Dooley Library – 1930, Addition – 1972 101 East Franklin Street On October 13th, 1924, after more than 20 years of effort, a group of civic activists opened the Richmond Public Library. The late Major Lewis Ginter’s former home at 901 West Franklin Street served as the first location. By 1930 a …
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 …
Carneal & Johnston, Architects 1931 108 East Grace Street Sydnor and Hundley opened in 1931 on the fashionable Grace Street shopping corridor. The building was designed as offices and a showroom for one of city’s largest furniture dealers. Architects Carneal and Johnston were commissioned and the result is one of the most significant Art Deco …
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners 2013 1201 East Marshall Street Once a collection of high class antebellum town homes, Richmond’s Court End neighborhood is now totally dominated by the VCU Medical Center. Each new building has increased the scale and intensity of the area which is one of the city’s most densely built. When it …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Architect: Odell and Associates Dates: 1991 Address: 1300 East Main Street On the corner of 13th and Main Streets rises the John Tyler Building. The building houses office space for the State of Virginia and lies only a block from the state capitol. Facades are composed mainly of granite and glass with metal …