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 …
Wilfred Emory Cutshaw 1887 1113 W Moore St The Moore Street School opened in 1887, an early example of a post-Civil War school built for Richmond’s African American children. The school served the neighborhood of Carver, in one form or another, until February, 2000, when it became a surplus property. (The southern end of …
Duncan Lee in association with Marion J. Dimmock (Johannas Design Group, 2004 interior renovations) 500 N. Allen Ave. 1909 The Orchard House Middle School, a private school for girls, occupies a stately three story brick Italianate building near the intersection of Allen and Monument Avenues. The school was established in 1998, but it hadn’t …
Carneal and Johnston 1908 2007 Monument Avenue In the popular imagination, the Fan may be a neighborhood of townhouses, but it also contains apartment buildings of many shapes and sizes. No street displays this diversity better than Monument Avenue. Walking down the avenue today, it is easy to spot the larger and grander of …
William H. Rhodes, architect, addition by Thomas Hamilton & Associates 1939, addition 1990 3301 West Broad St. Richmond has a number of handsome Art Deco buildings. Two landmarks are the Central National Bank building, and the West Hospital on Virginia Commonwealth University’s Health Campus (both are on West Broad Street downtown). Other, more modest …
Charles M. Robinson, architect 1926 3400 Patterson Ave. Architect Charles Robinson was as well-known for designing handsome and enduring Richmond public schools as he was for his collegiate architectural efforts, including work at James Madison and Virginia State universities and the College of William & Mary. The design of Albert H. Hill Middle School, which …
Harvey L. Page, architect 1888 901 W. Franklin St. Virginia Commonwealth University is the steward of dozens of fine, century-old, former residential structures along the historic West Franklin Street corridor. But few are as eye-popping as the VCU Administration Building which anchors the southwest corner of the campus’ primary intersection of West Franklin and Shafer …
Charles Shifflett and Thomas A. Gresham, associated architects 1961, plus additions 30 Malvern Avenue There is an outbreak of fine ecclesiastical architecture in the vicinity of Malvern Avenue between Grove Avenue and West Cary Street. The congregation of Reveille United Methodist Church occupies a stunning colonial revival sanctuary that was constructed in 1954. Seventh Street …
Hallett and Pratt, architect and Edward H. Winks, James Snowa, restoration architects 1921, restoration 2001 1301 West Broad Street The stretch of West Broad Street that cuts through the Virginia Commonwealth University Monroe Park campus from Belvidere to Lombardy streets is lined with mostly sprawling and architecturally uninspired dormitories, sports facilities and other institutional buildings. But …
1851 Bounded by Belvidere, Franklin, Laurel, and Main Streets Monroe Park is among the most prominent public spaces in Richmond. It sits at the nexus of the Fan District, Monroe Ward, and Belvidere Street, a busy thoroughfare that extends over nearby highways and deep into the north and south sides. For residents of many city …