Ballou & Justice, architect 2110 E. Laburnum Rd. c. 1965 (now March Funeral Home) 1771 N. Parham Rd., 1971 (pictured in photographs) 102 Huguenot Rd.,1983 When my octogenarian grandmother, as devout a Presbyterian as she was in-the-know, in the 1980s visited from Blackstone in rural Southside Virginia’s Nottoway County, she enjoyed being driven around …
Ethel Bailey Furman (addition) 1884 sanctuary, 1964 addition by Furman 2800 P Street From the grand gothic cathedrals at Chartres and Canterbury to the more earthly scale of an average American parish, church buildings have always changed with time and with the shifting needs of their congregations. Once the main sanctuary is complete, common additions …
Edward Francis Sinnott Sr. 1938 305 E. Nine Mile Rd. Taking the bus from central Richmond out Nine Mile Road to Highland Springs seems like traveling back in time. Located in a semi-rural patch of Eastern Henrico County, Highland Springs maintains the feel of a quaint, one-street town (despite suburban subdivisions and sprawling data …
Charles M. Robinson 1929 701 North 37th Street Since opening in 1929, East End Junior High School has served generations of children from Church Hill, Oakwood, and surrounding districts. It has since been reborn as the Franklin Military Academy, the nation’s first public military school, founded in 1980 (though initially at a different location). …
Samuel Sloan, architect 1853 and additions 1911, 1917 and 1930 additions 500 N. 25th St. As you travel through many cities and towns in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states, it’s hard not to be struck by the steeples of nineteenth and early 20th century churches that rise majestically above what were once densely-built residential …
O’Neill McVoy Architects with Quinn Evans, associate architect 2020 2500 Nine Mile Rd In 2020, Reynolds Community College opened a new culinary education center at 25th Street and Nine Mile Road, an important East End intersection. Dubbed the Kitchens at Reynolds, the building houses classrooms for the college’s culinary program as well as a greenhouse, …
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 …
Virginia Department of Transportation and Virginia Capital Trail Foundation 2006-2015 Linear route parallel to Virginia State Highway Route 5 from Shockoe Bottom in downtown Richmond to Jamestown The Virginia Capital Trail is a 52-mile pathway dedicated to hiking, jogging, cycling, skateboarding and other non-motorized activities. The eight-to-ten foot wide, fully paved asphalt road runs mostly parallel to State …
1796– Richard Adams House (demolished) 1810– Palmer-Taylor House, expanded 1859 1866-1987 remodelings and additions to complex 1895- chapel 2007– restoration, John Gass, architect 2100 and 2200 blocks of East Grace Street Few places in Richmond are as intriguing and densely-layered architecturally as Richmond Hill. The walled, Christian retreat center occupies almost two city blocks on …
Architect unknown c. 1810 2306 E. Grace St. In 1780, when Virginia’s capital city was moved from Williamsburg to Richmond, many property owners with holdings east of Shockoe Creek (Church Hill today) assumed that government buildings would be built in that vicinity and thus their land would increase in value. However, to their dismay the …