Quoit Club: 1708 Monteiro Street

Thursday, August 19, 2021.
6:00 p.m.
Members Only Tour | Click Here to buy a membership

We are excited to share with you the final house of three houses we are rehabilitating with project:HOMES and the City of Richmond as part of our Gateway Corridor Revitalization Project. This project provides affordable housing while preserving the rich architectural and cultural fabric of the historic Barton Heights neighborhood. Our tour guides will include members from the project:HOMES staff as well as Historic Richmond staff.

The Barton Heights Historic District (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) is among the earliest of several turn-of-the-century streetcar suburbs in north Richmond. Characterized by wood-frame houses that were largely built in the first quarter of the twentieth century, the neighborhood’s development was facilitated by the 1890 construction of the First Street Viaduct, which linked Richmond’s downtown to the district’s “heights” by bridging the industrial area at the foot of the Bacon Quarter Branch ravine.

The three properties, while not the most significant buildings in the neighborhood, represent good to excellent examples of each of the characteristic architectural styles found in the neighborhood – the Late Victorian, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival. While the district is designated as a National Register Historic District, there are no City of Richmond historic or architectural protections in the neighborhood. Thus, the project will collectively preserve and rehabilitate good to excellent examples of each of the characteristic architectural styles found in this early streetcar neighborhood.