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: Minard LaFever Date:1845 Address: Nine North Fifth Street When Presbyterian minister Moses D. Hoge commissioned a church design for his congregation, which was moving westward from Shockoe Hill toward Gamble’s Hill, he made a bold move. He eschewed classicism, which had been the architectural approach of most Richmond churches up to that time, and …
Alfred Bossom 825-827 East Main St 1913 The First National Bank was founded eight days after Lee’s surrender in Appomattox, when all Richmond banks’ charters had been revoked by the Federal Government. It merged with the National Exchange Bank and, after surviving the financial crisis of the 1890s, needed a new office building, for which …
Norman Stewart 707 East Franklin Street 1844 In the mid 19th Century, Norman Stewart, a rich Scottish tobacco merchant, constructed five free-standing residences, which came to be known as “Stewart’s Row,” one of the finest blocks in Richmond. Featuring side-hall plans and a structure that consumed most of the narrow plots, the rational three story …
Architect: HBA Architecture Dates: 2010 Address: 200 South 10th Street The Williams Mullen Center is one of the most significant new projects in downtown Richmond in recent years. Occupying a formerly vacant site on the corner of 10th and Canal Streets, the mid-rise tower totals 15 stories. First floor retail grounds the building at …
Architect: Marcellus Wright Dates: 1929 Address: 101 N. 5th Street Erected in 1929, the Hotel John Marshall immediately became an establishment in the city. It’s imposing entrances, grand ballrooms, and bombastic skyline signage were icons of Richmond’s then vibrant Grace Street corridor. The area was home to boutiques, restaurants, and department stores that attracted visitors …
Architect: Jackson C. Gott Date: 1888-1893 Address: 101-107 West Broad Street Conceived by a planning, financing and laboring of over 40 years by the Virginia Masons, the former Masonic Temple is impossible to miss on Broad Street. It is Richmond’s clearest manifestation of Richardsonian Romanesque, an American style characterized by a robust geometry and massing, …
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 …
1780, original layout by Thomas Jefferson and Directors of Public Works 1816, first landscaping plan by Maximilian Godefroy. 1850-1860, second landscaping plan by John Notman Bounded by Ninth, Bank, Governor and Capitol streets (the latter two now closed to vehicular traffic) A prominent Broadway producer and native Virginian, the late Richmond Crinkley once said …
Architect: Ammi B. Young; renovations and additions by Mifflin E. Bell, James Knox Taylor, James A. Wetmore Dates: 1858; renovations and additions in 1889, 1912, 1932 Address: 1000 E. Main St Originally used as the Customs House and Post Office of Richmond, the Lewis F Powell Jr. Courthouse occupies half of a block downtown, directly …