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Morson’s Row
Year Built: 1853 Architectural Style: Italianate District: Capitol Square Built as rental property by James Morson, this row of bowfront town houses is the only remaining evidence of the residential neighborhood that once surrounded Capitol Square. The buildings now contain state offices.
Old City Hall
Year Built: 1887-1894 Architectural Style: High Victorian Gothic District: Capitol Square In complete contrast to Jefferson’s calm, classical Capitol, architect Elijah E. Meyers designed this paean to Victorian architecture. The interior is as highly decorated as the exterior and contains cast-iron stairs and arcades made by Richmonder Asa Snyder. Threatened by…
Belle Bossieux Building
Year Built: 1878 Architectural Style: Italianate District: Tobacco Row Built by Edmund Bossieux and named for his wife, Belle. Shops and restaurants are located below the cast-iron gallery with living space above. This building’s restoration was partially financed by Historic Richmond to serve as a catalyst for revitalization in Shockoe Valley.
Pace-King House
Year Built: 1860 Architectural Style: Italianate District: Shockoe Valley Built by Charles Hill, this house is named for occupants James B. Pace in the 1870s and Mrs. Jane King in the 1880s and ‘90s. Note cast-iron veranda and fence, made locally. The two-story, urban-style slave quarters in the rear were…
523 N. 28th Street
Year Built: 1895 Architectural Style: Vernacular Italianate District: Church Hill North The main cornice of number 523 is a pleasant once with nicely detailed ornamental brackets between its flat panels. Above the panels is a row of elongated dentils. Below the cornice are handsomely fitted single and double windows that…
Susannah Walker House
Year Built: 1860 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Church Hill North The 500 block has an impressive row of similar houses. They are among the last Greek Revival houses built on Church Hill North as evidenced by the entrance porches.
Joseph Watts House
Year Built: 1855 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Church Hill North It is interesting that the house was built in a style usually found much earlier. It has fastidios stretcher brickwork. It was subsequently owned by William Folkes. In January, 1983, when Historic Richmond purchased the property to ensure its preservation,…
Nelson Turnley House
Year Built: 1853 Architectural Style: Greek Revival with Victorian additions District: Church Hill North Mr. Turnley was a custodian at the Medical College, and later a tobacconist and land developer. The house was built as a three-bay building with a side-hall plan. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the…
Billups Houses
Year Built: c. 1884 Architectural Style: Queen Anne District: Church Hill North Both houses, 601 and 603, are presumed to have been built soon after 1884, when one of them was constructed by Robert Sims. Both were owned by Charles Jackson Billups, who operated the Billups Funeral Home at 2500 E.…
Hiram Oliver Double House
Year Built: 1860 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Church Hill North Hiram Oliver was a large-scale builder in the district. During the antebellum period, speculative building became the norm. Oliver was manager of T. C. Williams, a tobacco manufacturer, and also the first treasurer of the local Masonic Lodge. The house…