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Agecroft Hall

Henry Grant Morse, architect and Charles Gillette, landscape architect  1926 (incorporating major elements moved from a c.1500 house in Lancashire, England) 4305 Sulgrave Road In 1926 when prominent Richmond businessman and Anglophile Thomas C. Williams was developing his family farm, Windsor, into Windsor Farms, located just west of Richmond in what was then Henrico County, …

Richmond Dairy Apartments

Carneal & Johnston 1913, addition 1990 201 W. Marshall St. The Richmond Dairy Apartments is an idiosyncratic and beloved building. It is a Tudor-Revival, fortress-like former manufacturing structure into which three, 40 foot masonry milk bottles have been inserted at strategic exterior building corners. Fifty years after its construction, Philadelphia architects Robert Venturi and Denise …

The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia

(originally the First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory) 122 W. Leigh St. 1895, Wilfred Emory Cutshaw, architect 2016, Baskervill, architect for addition and renovation Images of the original armory were taken by Michael Phillips, and images of the addition by Baservill were taken by Ansel Olson and provided by the firm.  After the Civil War the United …

Lewis Ginter Recreation Association

Architect: Duhring Okie and Ziegler Dates: 1901 Address: 3421 Hawthorne Avenue The story of the Lewis Ginter Recreation Association, or LGRA, is linked inextricably to the development of the Ginter Park neighborhood. Wealthy Richmond tobacco baron Lewis Ginter built an early streetcar suburb north of the city beginning in the late 1800s. Today’s LGRA was …