Preservation Advocacy
508 St. James Street
Year Built: 1915 with a 20th century rear addition Architectural Style: Colonial Revival District: Jackson Ward Historic Richmond has been monitoring 508 St. James Street since it appeared on the…
The Blackwell House
Year Built: c. 1911 District: Blackwell Historic Richmond is monitoring 211 E. 18th Street in an effort to find an appropriate buyer who would take the time to restore the…
511 W. Marshall Street
Year Built: c. 1855 Architectural Style: Greek Revival with an Italianate porch District: Jackson Ward When 511 W. Marshall Street was listed on the City’s Imminent Danger List for demolition in…
Monumental Church turns 200
By KATHERINE CALOS Richmond Times-Dispatch Posted: Saturday, September 27, 2014 A fantastic article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch highlighting 200-year-old Monumental Church. READ THE ARTICLE.
Marburg
Year Built: 1889 Architectural Style: Elements of Free Classic Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, and Colonial Revival District: Carillon neighborhood Built in 1889, Marburg is the oldest standing residence in the…
Patteson-Schutte House
Year Built: c. late 1750s District: Forest Hill Located in the historic Forest Hill area of Southside Richmond, the Patteson-Schutte House is the oldest frame structure in the city. Believed to have…
Montrose
Year Built: c. 1898 Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival District: Hermitage Road Historic District Built by Edmund Strudwick, the movement to save this house from demolition led to the creation of the…
Byrd Park Pump House
Year Built: 1882 Architectural Style: Gothic Revival Located in Pump House/Three Mile Lock Park This stone building served two purposes: as a pumping station to take water from the James River…
Superintendent’s House
Year Built: 1894 Architectural Style: Queen Anne District: Hollywood Cemetery [Entrance] Wirt Chesterman designed this house to replace an older structure used by the cemetery superintendent. The house was built for $4,000.…
Smith-Palmer House
Year Built: 1852 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street Richmond’s Greek Revival townhouse architecture at its most refined is well illustrated in the Smith-Palmer House. It is…
Susan V. Joynes House
Year Built: c. 1885 Architectural Style: originally Queen Anne District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street In its original form the house was probably similar in style to the Bruce House next…
208 – 212 W. Franklin St., formerly The Price House
Year Built: c. 1805 Architectural Style: Second Empire District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street This was originally Tucker Hospital. Greatly expanded over time, the original building is located in the…
T. Seddon Bruce House
Year Built: 1885 Architectural Style: Queen Anne District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street The exterior displays the variety of ornamentation that was popular during the Victorian era. The interior retains many…
A. S. Smith House
Year Built: c. 1870s Architectural Style: Late-Victorian District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street This medium-sized townhouse was once plentiful in downtown Richmond. The dignified but not individually distinguished dwelling forms an…
Mayo-Carter House
Year Built: 1895 Architectural Style: Beaux Arts District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street This house was designed by New York architects Carrere & Hastings, the same architects who designed the nearby…
Cole Digges House
Year Built: c. 1805 Architectural Style: Federal District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street The house takes its name from the builder, Revolutionary War veteran Cole Digges. It serves as the headquarters…
Ida Schoolcraft House
Year Built: 1875 Architectural Style: Second Empire District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street This building is a two-and-a-half-stories by three-bay brick structure with a bell-cast mansard roof covered with colored patterned…
Queen Anne Row
Year Built: 1891 Architectural Style: Queen Anne District: 200 Block W. Franklin Street This section of row houses, built in 1891, are reminiscent of San Francisco. Exuberant turrets and bays…
Christian House
Year Built: 1886 Architecture Style: Italianate District: Commonwealth Club in the Monroe Ward area Edward Christian was a New Market Cadet and graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1867. He came…
Allen Double House
Headquarters of Historic Richmond Year Built: 1836 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Zero Blocks East & West Franklin District in the Monroe Ward area Built by William Allen, it is one…
Linden Row
Year Built: 1847 and 1853 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Linden Row in the Monroe Ward area Linden Row is an extraordinary example of row houses. Originally it contained ten houses,…
National Theater
Year Built: 1922 Architectural Style: Italian Renaissance Revival District: Broad Street This theater is located outside of the Broad Street Historic District. It features an Italianate exterior with Adamesque interior. C.K.…
617 St. Peter Street
Year Built: c. 1880 Architectural Style: Victorian District: Jackson Ward 617 St. Peter Street is a contributing structure in the Jackson Ward Historic District listed on the Virginia Register and…
Goddin-Taylor House
Year Built: c. 1820 Architectural Style: Federal District: Jackson Ward The Goddin-Taylor House is one of the oldest houses in Jackson Ward and illustrates beautifully the typical development of a Richmond…
Tucker Cottage
Year Built: 1798 Architectural Style: Colonial District: Jackson Ward Originally located at 612 North 3rd Street, this is one of few gambrel-roofed cottages left in the city. It was moved in…
Monumental Church
Year Built: 1812-1814 Architectural Style: Neo-Classical On December 26, 1811, a fire at the Richmond Theatre claimed the lives of over seventy-two people, including the governor. Robert Mills, America’s first native-born,…
Stewart-Lee House
Year Built: 1844 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Capitol Square Built by wealthy merchant Norman Stewart, this house was occupied by Robert E. Lee’s family during a portion of the Civil…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
James Parkinson House
James Parkinson House, c. 1818 Architectural Style: Federal District: Church Hill North Parkinson was a clerk at Rocketts, the port of Richmond. The present porch is a Victorian alteration. Flemish-bond brick…
Francis V. Sutton House
Year Built: c. 1858 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Church Hill North The small front porch on this house is one of the earliest example of the Renaissance Revival style in Richmond.…
Reuben Ford House
Year Built: 1855 Architectural Style: Greek Revival District: Church Hill North The house is named after the first pastor of the Leigh Street Baptist Church. This is a typical Greek Revival house…
418, 420 N. 27th Street
Year Built: 1896 Architectural Style: Vernacular District: Church Hill North The quadruple house at 414-420 has retained much of its original porch with the cornice, turned posts, and varied brackets typical…
Wills Store
Year Built: c. 1813 Architectural Style: Federal District: Church Hill North Between 1813 and 1815, Charles Wills, captain of the local Camp Holly Militia, built a unique, two-story brick store at…
Wills House
Year Built: 1812 Architectural Style: Federal District: Church Hill North The largest existing frame house in the district was the home of a wealthy and prominent merchant, Captain Charles Wills. It…
Payne House
Year Built: c. 1880 Architectural Style: Victorian District: Church Hill North The cornice is beautifully detailed and its white paint allows the details to be seen very easily in the natural…
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