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Richmond Community Hospital Building

By Copeland Casati | February 27, 2024

February 27, 2024 Richmond Community Hospital Building Virginia Union University 1209 Overbrook Road Richmond Community Hospital, also known as the Sarah Jones Memorial Hospital, was designed by Edward F. Sinnott…

Blues Armory

Blues Armory

By Copeland Casati | May 31, 2023

Blues Armory Year Built: Circa 1910 Architectural Style: Castellated District: Court End/Downtown Richmond was once home to five civic armories, built over a 30-year period beginning in the 1880s during…

Blues Armory

Blues Armory

By Copeland Casati | May 31, 2023

Spring 2023 Update: The City of Richmond is in the midst of a solicitation process to select a development partner to purchase and redevelop approximately 9.4 acres of EDA-owned property…

Fox Elementary

William Fox School

By Copeland Casati | May 28, 2023

Spring 2023 Update: We are pleased to report that Richmond Public Schools has received a state grant to help cover the costs of rebuilding Fox Elementary! Combined with the insurance…

Thirteen Acres School

By historicrichmondadmin | April 16, 2023

Update: 2022 In our spring 2021 newsletter, we highlighted Thirteen Acres (c. 1885), one of the oldest surviving structures in the Hermitage Road Historic District. In January 2023, thanks to…

Moore St School 3

Moore St School

By Copeland Casati | January 27, 2023

In 2022, the Commonwealth of Virginia recognized the importance of saving this historic school in Carver with a $75,000 budget allocation. The state budget also created a new BIPOC Fund…

Second Baptist Church: DEMOLITION ALERT!

By Copeland Casati | October 29, 2021

UPDATE 2/12/22  Richmond’s grassroots efforts continue, with a rally to save Richmond landmark Second Baptist Church today, at 3. Please share. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ4UjraFxCs/ UPDATE 2/11/22 1:30 p.m. Historic Richmond learned last night…

Westwood (McGuire Cottage)

By Rebecca Redington | January 29, 2021

Year Built: 1880s-1890s Architectural Style: Italianate Cottage     Neighborhood: Sherwood Park Update: January 29, 2021 It is profoundly distressing that Union Presbyterian Seminary has demolished one of the oldest surviving structures…

Historic Brookbury Farm

By historicrichmondadmin | July 22, 2020

Brookbury Farm is one of those special, important and historic Places that connects us across time to the lives of many People – men, women, children – Black and white,…

George Mason School

By historicrichmondadmin | August 20, 2019

Our original Richmond@Risk website post, dated August 20, 2019, has been updated with additional information, research, findings, and photographs. Background Thanks to some super sleuths, it was noted that the…