Architects: Cram and Ferguson, with Carneal, Johnston and Wright, associate architect. Date: 1931 Address: Blanton Avenue in Byrd Park. During World War I, many European towns promised to silence the bells of their town halls and churches until victory over Germany. When peace finally did occur in November 1919, bells all over northern Europe …
Architect: John Russell Pope Dates: 1917-1919 Address: 2500 West Broad St Now known as a primary educational and cultural feature of the city, the inscribed words “Union Station of Richmond” upon the Science Museum’s facade underneath a grand clock recall the honored past of the proud neoclassical edifice as a beacon for transportation, a gateway …
Marcellus Wright Sr., Charles Custer Robinson, and Charles M. Robinson 1925 – 1927 6 N. Laurel Street, Richmond VA Conceived in 1918, what is now Richmond’s Altria Theater was built as the city’s largest Shriner meeting house. Created largely through the work of Clinton L. Williams, the chapter’s potentate, the building’s program originally included a …
John Russell Pope 1919 2501 Monument Avenue One of the most impressive mansions on the already extravagant Monument Avenue, the Branch House was commissioned in 1916 by John Kerr Branch, a wealthy stockbroker and bank president. The house was to have enough space to house his extensive collection of Italian Renaissance items, including tapestries, …