Architects: Samuel J. Collins and Richard E. Collins, (original complex,1956). Glave & Holmes Architects ( Paul and Phyliss Galanti Education Center and amphitheater, 2010). Dates: 1956, 2010 Address: 621 S. Belvidere St. There are few places in Richmond where memory, space and landscape meld more evocatively than at the Virginia War Memorial. This modernist, open …
Engineer: C. P. E. Burgwyn, City of Richmond Date: 1887 Monument Avenue was a major factor in Richmond’s westward development, informs Richmond’s mystique, and is one of our nation’s grandest thoroughfares. The street, with its iconic grassy median and four parallel rows of shade trees, begins at Lombardy Avenue and extends for more than six …
Architects: Bascom Rowlett, Davis Brothers Date: 1926 Address: 3418 – 3450 Grove Avenue On an unassuming block of Grove Avenue stands English Village, a development almost 90 years old and deeply embedded in Richmond’s architectural heritage. Yet at its conception in the early 20th century it was a break from the typical financial and spatial …
Architect: Charles M. Robinson Date: 1912 Address: 2100 Idlewood Ave While not the most celebrated grade school designed by Robinson in the city, the former John B. Cary Elementary School in Byrd Park nonetheless shares several similarities with Thomas Jefferson High School, Albert Hill School and Highland Park Public School, despite the differing aesthetic styles. …
Architect: Wilfred E. Cutshaw Date: 1882 Address: 1708 Pump House Dr Tucked away along the Three-Mile Locks of the Kanawha Canal, a weighty Neo-Gothic structure rises over the water, a symbol of utility, conviviality and mystery. Massive gabled slate roofs look out across the river from their overgrown land, neglected but not forgotten. The great …
Muhlenburg Bros. with Noland & Baskervill 1903 900 West Franklin The Chesterfield Apartments opened in November 1903 as Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building. It was also the first building of its scale on the prosperous blocks of West Franklin Street near Monroe Park. The building holds a cherished place in Richmond’s collective memory as the home …
Architect: Ballou and Justice Dates: 1970 Address: 325 N. Harrison Street On Harrison Street at the eastern terminus of West Avenue lies the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Pollak Building. The building is occupied by various parts of the VCU School of the Arts including the office of the dean, and the graphic design, fashion, film, and …
Architects: Peebles and Ferguson Architects, Norfolk (1936); Theater Wing, Merrill C. Lee Architects, Richmond (1954); South Wing, Baskervill & Son Architects, Richmond (1970); North Wing, Warren Hardwicke Associates, Richmond, and Sculpture Garden, Lawrence Halprin Associates, San Francisco, landscape architect (1976), both demolished; Lewis Mellon Wing, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, New York City (1985); Frances G. …
Architect: Joseph Hubert McGuire, architect Date: 1906 with 1996 renovations by Robert P. Winthrop Address: 800 Cathedral Place Virginia-born New York industrialist Thomas Fortune Ryan and his devout wife, Ida Barry Ryan, gave much of their considerable wealth to Catholic causes and institutions along the east coast. But nothing in their benevolence compares with the …
Architect: Pietro Belluschi Inc. with Jung / Brannen Associates Date: 1978 Address: 1025 W. Grace Street A stoic brutalist slab, the 12 story Dominion Place rises out of the leafy Fan District near the corner of Ryland Avenue and Grace Street. It is the closest Richmond has come to Unité d’Habitation, Le Corbusier’s famous housing …