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UtR 43: 415 W FRANKLIN ST

UtR 43: 415 W FRANKLIN ST
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c. 1886

Owner: COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Mailing Address: 401 W FRANKLIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA 23220
Current Assessment
Land Value: $227,000
Improvement Value: $385,000
Total Value: $612,000
Commonwealth Club National historic District

This contributing structure to the Commonweath Club National District (with 14 other buildings in the district) had structural and system violations per the city and word on the street is that the Commonwealth Club has plans of demolishing it. HRF staff has calls into the city and will update this post as information comes available.

One of our constituents inquired about this situation several weeks ago, but the city did not have information on it….

*UPDATE* We just got off the phone with a city official who issued the public notice on May 27, 2011. She had given the club one week to fix some issues on the exterior of the building. The club cooperated; the official took down the sign on the front but left the one in the back to serve as a no trespassing sign. She has not been on the inside of the building, but notes that the building does have visible issues on the exterior. She also stated that from her conversation with the club manager, their intention is to tear it down, possibly for more parking.

415 W Franklinweb7.11.11 update: HRF is paying a local architectural firm to complete a conditions assessment and potential uses report of the structure. We will present their findings to the Commonwealth Club in hopes that they will choose to save and rehab the building. This building will not go down without a fight!

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UtR: 42 2109 East Broad Street

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UtR: 42
2109 E BROAD ST Richmond, VA 23223-7027
Owner: JONES DAVID N
Mailing Address: P O BOX 1813, MIDLOTHIAN, VA 23113-1813
Current Assessment
Land Value: $61,000
Improvement Value: $105,000
Total Value: $166,000
Located within the St. Johns city Old and Historic District as well as the National Historic District, this house was built in 1861 and is called the Burnham Davis House. This 2-story Greek Revival is complete with a boxed cornice, plain freeze and pedimented window heads.

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UtR 41: 1628 Matthews Street

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UtR 41: 1628 MATTHEWS ST Richmond, VA 23222-5427
Alternate Street Addresses: 1634 MATTHEWS ST
Built in 1890

Owner: SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING CORP
Mailing Address: 1624 HULL ST, RICHMOND, VA 23224
Current Assessment
Land Value: $90,000
Improvement Value: $68,000
Total Value: $158,000

This house is actually called the Kastleburg House. It was purchased by Rudy Kastleburg–Jimmy Kasleburg owns Caravati’s, not positive if there is a relation there– and built in 1879.    Architecture Summary: Frame 2-story, 5-bay double-pile center-passage plan dwelling with central 2-story porch at entry bay sheltering doors on each floor with transoms flanked by 6/6 sash, shallow hipeed standing seam me…tal roof, massive brick chimneys
placed between the two rooms that open to each side of the central passage. Sawn brackets on the cornice across at the rear
suggest that the west front was the principal front originally. The chimneys feature inset panel on the front. One-story bracketed
porch of three bays on west front. The property was purchased by Rudolph Kastelburg. It is a rare surviving example of the houses that were spaced at intervals on the tracts that lined the Meadowbridge Road in the mid-19th century. The building is a contributing building in the potential Chestnut Hill/Plateau Historic District. (via DHR).

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UtR 40: Laurel Meadow

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UtR 40: Laurel Meadow – 1640 Bramwell Rd, Richmond VA.

This home was built in the mid 1700s by Colonel David Patteson on originally approximately 800 acres. It is currently 1 acre.
The front entrance (not currently used) is by welcoming double doors that one enters to cross a wide entry room over to a facing set of double doors leading to a L-shaped porch. After entering, gentlemen would ascend 16 mahogany-railed stairs to a landing, turn and go three more stairs to the open “smoking room.” It is likely there that Colonel David Patteson, owner of Laurel Meadow and a representative to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1788, entertained other dignitaries planning the fate of our state and country. David Patteson is buried, along with other family members, in the family cemetery about 100 yards from the house. Most of the windows are of original glass. There is beautiful woodwork: fine doors, wide floorboards, brick, mostly original plaster (adhered with the hair of three horses’ tails, previous owner Elizabeth Johnson, observed), mahogany railings etc. The living and dining rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows.
The house is in need of some TLC that will bring it back to its former charm.

For information on the sale of this house, please contact Stephen Johnson at 800 294 7497 or SJohnson@ACTisIT.com

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UtR: 39: 914 N 21st Street

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UtR: 39: For sale for $2,500

914 N 21ST ST Richmond, VA 23223-5112
Owner: RICHMOND INVESTMENT GROUP LLC TRS
Mailing Address: 10307 W BROAD ST #335, GLEN ALLEN, VA 23060

Current Assessment
Land Value: $19,000
Improvement Value: $28,000
Total Value: $47,000

Built in 1910 (?)

check out more info on church hill people’s news blog…
http://chpn.net/news/2011/05/09/house-for-sale-for-2500_17992/

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UtR: 38 417 N 33rd Street

 

 

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 UtR: 38
417 N 33RD ST Richmond, VA 23223-7520
Owner: TOWER BUILDING PROPERTIES LLC C/O STACY MARTIN

Mailing Address: 2211 DICKENS RD STE 200, RICHMOND, VA 23230

Current Assessment
Land Value: $20,000
Improvement Value: $33,000
Total Value: $53,000

Oakwood-Chimborazo National historic District

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UtR 37: Its a mystery!

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UtR 37: Its a mystery!
Can anyone help us? This house is located on Bunn Avenue, behind Government Rd. in Montrose Heights. The address on the gate reads 4504, but staff can not find any information on the City of Richmond property search page. It looks so interesting… a little help?

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UtR 36: Old First and Merchants National Bank Building

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UtR 36: 825–27 East Main St./ Old First and Merchants National Bank Building

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Mailing Address: 2900 FAIRVIEW PARK DR, FALLS CHURCH, VA 22042-4518

Assessments
Land Value: $756,000
Improvement Value: $10,076,000
Total Value: $10,832,000
Main Street Banking National historic District

The First National Bank Building is one of the finest examples of turn-of-the-century Neoclassical Revival Architecture in the city of Richmond. Completed in 1912, the building was one of the city’s first high-rise towers. The building combines monumental scale and fine detailing with the technological daring inherent in early steel-frame, high-rise construction. It was designed by Alfred Charles Bossom (1881-1965), an associate with the prominent New York architectural firm of Clinton and Russell. With its terracotta ornament, carefully proportioned Corinthian columns, and elegant banking rooms, Bossom’s design for the building fully embodies the Neoclassical style, then deemed appropriate for financial institutions. Located in the center of Richmond’s financial district, the First National Bank Building symbolizes the economic vitality of Virginia and served for more than half a century as the headquarters for the state’s oldest banking
institution known as First and Merchants National Bank. This Neoclassical Revival style bank contributes to the historic and architectural significance of the Main Street Banking Historic District.

Currently vacant after Scott and Stringfellow moved to new offices

Source: DHR

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UtR 35: Former Second Baptist Church

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UtR 35: Former Second Baptist Church
13 W FRANKLIN ST
c. 1906

Owner: HISTORIC HOTELS OF RICHMOND LLC C/O B W ARMSTRONG
Mailing Address: 901 E CARY ST STE 1500, RICHMOND, VA 23219

Current Assessment

Land Value: $371,000
Improvement Value: $555,000
Total Value: $926,000

Zero Blocks East and West Franklin Street
City Old and Historic District

William Noland architect

Currently owned by the Jefferson Hotel and used for storage.

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UtR 34: Columbia

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UtR 34: Columbia/ 1142 W. Grace Street
c 1817

Owner: RICHMOND REAL ESTATE GROUP LLC
Mailing Address: PO BOX 4225, RICHMOND, VA 23220

Current Assessment
Land Value: $464,000
Improvement Value: $536,000
Total Value: $1,000,000

Located in West Grace Street City Old and Historic District and the Fan Area National Historic District

Columbia is a Flemish-bonded brick residence that was built for Philip Haxall in 1817/18. The two-story,
hipped-roofed structure is distinguished by a handsome symmetrical Federal-style exterior which belies its rather unusual first-floor, Palladian-derived plan. The finely carved interior woodwork and King-of-Prussia marble mantels contribute to its rank as one of the finest surviving Federal-period houses in Richmond. The edifice underwent exterior alterations in 1924 to expand the home of the T.C. Williams School of Law of the University of Richmond. It was at this time that the main entrance was changed to the Grace Street
front and the large classroom wing was added to its north side.
souce: DHR DSS

This building is currently vacant and has changed hands many times is recent years. Does anyone know anything about the owners’ future plans?

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