Posts Tagged ‘Italianate’

UtR 48: 22-24 West Marshall Street

22-24 W Marshall

UtR 48:

Street Address: 413 N ADAMS ST Richmond, VA 23220-3901
Alternate Street Addresses: 22 W MARSHALL ST
: 411 N ADAMS ST
: 24 W MARSHALL ST
Owner: THE BAVIDANI GROUP LLC
Mailing Address: 106 W MARSHALL ST, RICHMOND, VA 2322000000

Current Assessment
Land Value: $77,000
Improvement Value: $299,000
Total Value: $376,000

Facing West Marshall Street, this Victorian-folk house is the largest in the Jackson Ward City Old and Historic District. Built ca 1915, this elegant house retains all its historical details such as original sills, one-over-one windows, the porch with ionic columns and the double-leaf, paneled doors with transoms. It is unique to its Italianate neighbors typical of the rest of the district.

Via DHR survey:
… The dwelling stands in contrast to the majority of modest Italianate-style residences found in the 00-block. The dwellings and commercial buildings in the area of expansion are significant … for their association with the residential, social and economic history of Richmond’s African-American population. In the mid-to-late-nineteenth century, the 0-block was a microcosm of diversity, including Jewish merchants, skilled tradesmen of color, and immigrants of the rising middle class of Dutch, German and English origin. By the second decade of the twentieth century, the character of the 0-block was transformed to blend seamlessly into the larger vibrant Jackson Ward neighborhood, home to the largest concentration of blacks in the commonwealth. The 0-block remained essentially residential during most of the twentieth century. The 0-block is significant … because it incorporates into the larger Jackson Ward Historic District a varied collection of mid-to-late-nineteenth century Italianate and Greek Revival-style dwellings and early-twentieth-century commercial buildings. The resources are comparable in scale, materials, style, and period of significance, 1800-1926, to the previously nominated buildings.

618 North 1st Street

618 1st street

UtR 24: 618 N. 1st Street
ca. 1880

Owner: Kimberley Beth Gray
Current Assessment: $187,000
purchased in 2007

This is an Italiante style commercial building with a bracketed cornice, segmental-arched windows with
keystones, and a quoined stair entrance on one end and an angled corner entrance with storefront.

617 St. Peter Street

617 st peter

UtR 23: 617 ST PETER ST

Owner: MOSBY JOSEPH III
2413 OLD DOMINION ST, RICHMOND, VA 23224
purchased in 1994

ca 1880 Italianate design

Current Assessment
Land Value: $18,000
Improvement Value: $58,000
Total Value: $76,000

This Resource is associated with the Jackson Ward
Historic District and is a contributing structure

1201 Porter St- Manchester

1201 porter

UtR 20: 1201 Porter St- Manchester

Owner: David B. and Elma G. Williams
Total value: $173,000
Purchased in 2002
Year built: 1876
Known as the Ingram House
Architecture: Italianate
-2 story 3 bay front brick dwelling with recessed side bay wing
-Main entry double leaf door with transom above
-Windows at 1st floor opening have sill at floor
-Full width porch is cast iron, side recessed bay with entry and 1 story, 1 bay cast iron porch
-Wood cornice at the roof above brackets dentil, panels and vents
House is representative of earliest surviving domestic architecture in Manchester.
One of two dwellings with cast iron porch. Once was the home and office of Dr. Sylvanus Ingram and his son Dr. Lawrence Ingram. Sylvanus studied medicine in Charlottesville, Philadelphia and in Paris and served as a surgeon during the war in Courtney’s Battery.

1307 North 23rd Street

1307 N 23rd Street

UtR 15: 1307 N. 23rd Street
Fairmount Historic District
Owned by Keth and Dorothy Fleming of Crozier, VA
Purchased in 2002 and mothballed since; Assessed at $39,000

This c. 1895 Italianate style house has weatherboard on a wood frame structure. The foundation is solid brick. There is a 1 story 3 bay porch with turned wooden posts. It is a half-hipped porch with a metal roof, dentils at the cornice, and brackets on the posts. The windows are not visible. The roof is a shed roof and has an interior end corbeled cap brick chimney. This three-bay house features a wood cornice with brackets and dentils. All the openings are blocked with plywood.

Contributing in the area of architecture, this is one of approximately 150 examples in the Fairmount Historic District of a box-like two story frame building with some Italianate details. The Italianate houses that match this description represent the second most common architectural style and house form built in the district in the 1890s. The district’s Italianate and Queen Anne houses make up the majority of the buildings that survive from before 1906, when Fairmount was a separately incorporated town and part of Henrico County.

 The Italianate houses are remarkably similar to one another in detailing, suggesting that they may have all been built by one or two construction companies. They make up about one fourth of the resources in the district. However, there are many blocks in the older sections of the district where almost all the houses in a given block are in this style, creating a sense of unity, synchronicity, and urban density. What potential…
Source: DHR DSS

505 North 26th Street

505 N 26th St

UtR 5:
505 N 26th St.
Built ca 1880
Detached frame vernacular Italianate
The Italianate brackets are still intact and in great shape. But that doesn’t account for the rest of this charming house—it needs help!

National Theater (1922)

704 East Broad Street

Historic Areas | Advocacy | Historic Richmond Foundation

The National Theater is located outside of the Broad Street Historic District.  It features an Italian Renassaince Revival exterior with Adamesque interior.  The architect of the theater was C.K. Howell.  The interior plaster work was done by Ferruccio Legnaioli. Vaudeville, silent movies and talkies have all been showcased at the National.  The National was one of three theaters on this block.  One was demolished and the facade of the other was incorporated into a modern office building.  Historic Richmond Foundation and Preservation Virginia purchased the building and saved it from demolition in 1989.  Twenty years later it was bought and restored into a concert venue for the city of Richmond.

 

{Photo Credits: Exterior and Interior shots, Richard Cheek for Historic Richmond Foundation}