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Aluminaut (built in 1964) was the world's first aluminum submarine. An experimental vessel, the 80-ton, 15.5-metre (51 ft) crewed deep-ocean research submersible was built by Reynolds Metals Company, which was seeking to promote the utility of aluminum. Aluminaut was based in Miami, Florida, and was operated from 1964 to 1970 by Reynolds Submarine Services, doing contract work for the U.S. Navy and other organizations, including marine biologist Jacques Cousteau.
The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, and the first elected legislative assembly in the New World. It was established on July 30, 1619.
website: http://virginiageneralassembly.gov/, http://legis.state.va.us/
The Peter the Great egg is a jewelled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1903 for the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Tsar Nicholas presented the Fabergé egg to his wife, the Czarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. The egg is now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States.
Castle Thunder, located between what is now 18th Street and 19th Street on northern side of E Cary Street in Richmond, Virginia, was a former tobacco warehouse in three buildings, located on Tobacco Row, converted into a prison pursuant to an order of Richmond's provost-marshal John Winder by August 1862. The Confederacy there housed civilian prisoners, including captured Union spies and deserters, political prisoners and those charged with treason during the American Civil War.
Monument Avenue is a tree-lined grassy mall dividing the eastbound and westbound traffic in Richmond, Virginia, originally named for its emblematic complex of structures honoring those who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Between 1900 and 1925, Monument Avenue greatly expanded with architecturally significant houses, churches, and apartment buildings. Four of the bronze statues representing J. E. B. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and Matthew Fontaine Maury were removed from their memorial pedestals amidst civil unrest in July 2020. The Robert E. Lee Monument was handled differently as it was owned by the Commonwealth, in contrast with the other monuments which were owned by the city. Dedicated in 1890, it was removed on September 8, 2021. All these monuments, including their pedestals, have now been removed completely from the Avenue. The last remaining statue on Monument Avenue is the Arthur Ashe Monument, memorializing the African-American tennis champion, dedicated in 1996.
NRHP reference number: 70000883; USGS GNIS ID: 1780536
website: http://apps.lis.virginia.gov/sfb1/Senate/TelephoneList.aspx
The Dowager (or Imperial Pelican) Fabergé egg, is a jewelled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1898. The egg was made for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented it to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna on Easter 1898.
The Rock Crystal egg or Revolving Miniatures egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one in a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family. It was created in 1896 for Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg currently resides in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
The Tsarevich egg, also known as the Czarevich egg, is a Fabergé egg, one of a series of jewelled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé. It was created in 1912 for Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna as a tribute by Fabergé to her son the Tsarevich Alexei (Alexei). The egg is currently in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, US.
The Court of Appeals of Virginia, established January 1, 1985, is an intermediate appellate court of 17 judges that hears appeals from decisions of Virginia's circuit courts and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. The Court sits in panels of at least three judges, and sometimes hears cases en banc. Appeals from the Court of Appeals go to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
website: http://www.courts.state.va.us/courts/cav/home.html
The Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial Cemetery was built in 1955 and is located within Forest Lawn Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. "Emek Sholom" translates into English as "Valley of Peace."
NRHP reference number: 99000072
The Evans-Haynes Burn Center at the VCU Medical Center/Virginia Commonwealth University was founded in 1947 and is the oldest civilian burn center in the country. Dr. Everret I. Evans founded the center and was medical director from 1947 to 1954. During Evan's tenure as Burn Director, many advances in burn care were developed including the establishment of the first civilian intensive care unit and the development of the first protocol for fluid resuscitation post burn. He was followed by Dr. Boyd W. Haynes, who directed the unit for 36 years. A succession of MDs have directed the Center since 1990.
The Exchange Hotel, completed in 1841 in Richmond, Virginia was a Gothic revival four-story building designed by Isaiah Rogers. It was very popular before the Civil War.
Forest Hill Park, known for its "Stone house" called Boscobel, is a historic 105-acre (0.4 km2) urban park in Richmond, Virginia. Starting as a private property, the park has had several owners and uses before its present one, the City of Richmond.
NRHP reference number: 02001446
The Fraternal Order of Eagles Building is a historic Fraternal Order of Eagles clubhouse located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1914, and is a three-story, three bay by six bay, rectangular brick building in the Neoclassical Revival style. In 2005, the building was renovated into apartments with a commercial space in the basement.
NRHP reference number: 06000346
Gambles Hill is a neighborhood near Downtown Richmond, Virginia. The neighborhood contains the Virginia War Monument, Historic Tredegar, Brown's Island and the WestRock Corporation.
George Washington is a statue by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon from the late 18th century. Based on a life mask and other measurements of George Washington taken by Houdon, it is considered one of the most accurate depictions of the subject. The original sculpture is located in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, and it has been copied extensively, with one copy standing in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
Gilpin is a small neighborhood located in Richmond, Virginia and within the boundaries of the North Side of the city limits. Originally part and parcel of the historically Black neighborhood of Jackson Ward, the northern section of that neighborhood was heavily redeveloped with the provision of public housing from the mid-20th century onwards, with the major development taking the name "Gilpin Court". During the same period, a massive expansion of highway building around and through central Richmond saw the Gilpin Court and the rest of the neighborhood essentially cut off from the rest of Jackson Ward.
Grace Hospital is an American historic hospital in Richmond, Virginia. The original Colonial Revival structure was built in 1911 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson. The hospital is located to the west of Richmond's central business district and was substantially expanded by additions in 1930 and 1964. The original three-story main structure with an entrance pavilion on West Grace Street, is a Colonial Revival building with paired Ionic order columns and gauged arches. In 1930, a five-story Moderne style addition was built to the south along Monroe Street. In 1964, a further three-story addition was built along Grace Street. The 1964 addition is devoid of ornamentation, and the west wing "projects a modern, utilitarian character."
NRHP reference number: 04000856
Granite was an unincorporated community in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was originally located along the Richmond and Danville Railroad five miles west of Manchester and about a mile south of the rapids of the James River along Powhite Creek. Most of the Granite area of Chesterfield County was annexed by the independent city of Richmond on January 1, 1970.
Green Park is a small neighborhood of approximately 240 homes located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The neighborhood is within the boundaries of the North Side of the city limits.
Highland Park Public School is a historic school building located in Richmond, Virginia. The structure was built in 1909 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson. The Mediterranean Revival building is a two-story brick and stucco structure topped by hipped roofs clad with terra cotta tiles. In its use of the Mediterranean Revival style, the building was a departure from the Georgian and Gothic styles commonly used in Virginia school buildings of the time. The building used as the community school for Highland Park, Virginia, until the community was annexed by the City of Richmond in 1914. It served thereafter as a neighborhood school in the Richmond public school system until it closed in the 1970s. The building is considered to be important as an example of the work of Charles M. Robinson, who served as Richmond School Board architect from 1909 to 1930. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The building was converted from 1990 to 1991 into a residential apartment complex for senior citizens and re-opened under the name Brookland Park Plaza.
NRHP reference number: 91001683
The James River Bridge carries Interstate 95 across the James River in Richmond, Virginia.
The Carolina Crusher was one of the most powerful winter storms on record in parts of North Carolina. The storm hit the Greater Richmond Region on January 25, 2000, causing thousands of power outages within the area leaving 11 in (280 mm) of snow in Richmond, Virginia and 20.3 in (520 mm) in Raleigh-Durham International Airport before moving out to the Atlantic Ocean.
John B. Cary School is a historic school building located in Richmond, Virginia. The structure was built by the Wise Granite Company from 1912 to 1913 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson. The building is considered to be an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, granite faced that has been little altered since its original construction. The school was named for Confederate Colonel John B. Cary, who served as the superintendent of the Richmond Public Schools from 1886 to 1889. In 1954, the school was renamed the West End School, when the school was converted for use as a school for African-American students in Richmond's segregated public school system. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
NRHP reference number: 92001030
The Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy, also known as the U.D.C. Memorial Building, is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia, that serves as the national headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The building is open to the public on scheduled days.
NRHP reference number: 08000341
Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works, also known as the American Locomotive Company, Richmond Works, consists of two historic buildings located in Richmond, Virginia. They are an Iron Foundry, in use by 1887 and expanded in 1917, and a Brass Foundry, constructed in 1922. Both structures are steel framed, and clad in brick. The Iron Foundry building is approximately 100 feet wide by 480 feet long. The Brass Foundry building measures approximately 160 feet by 50 feet. The Richmond Locomotive & Machine Works grew out of Tredegar Iron Works to become a nationally known manufacturer of steam locomotive engines and an integral part of the industrial landscape of the Three Corners District in Richmond.
Street address: 1331 North Boulevard (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 07000363
Scott House, also known as Frederic W. Scott House and Scott-Bocock House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia and is owned by Virginia Commonwealth University as the University's alumni house. The first floor of the historic house is available for university, community and corporate events. Many affairs — including university and alumni receptions and retreats — have occurred at the Scott House since its doors opened in the fall of 2004.
NRHP reference number: 05001545
Southern Stove Works is a historic factory complex located in the Three Corners District of Richmond, Virginia. The complex includes four contributing red brick buildings built between 1902 and 1920. The buildings housed the foundry, assembly operations, warehouse storage, and metal storage. In 1920, Southern Stove Works vacated the buildings and moved to their new facility, Southern Stove Works, Manchester. By 1921, these buildings were occupied by the J. P. Taylor Leaf Tobacco Company (later Universal Leaf Tobacco Company).
Street address: 1215 Hermitage Road (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 05000480
Southern Stove Works, Manchester is a historic factory complex located in Richmond, Virginia that replaced the company's original factory. The complex includes two contributing prefabricated steel frame buildings built in 1920. The west building contains the original two-story office building that has been connected by one-story infill to the long one-story warehouse building that contained the pressing and mounting departments and a three-part warehouse. The office is a five-by-three-bay, two-story, building measuring 40 by 80 feet (12 by 24 m) and brick curtain walls. The east building today consists of the foundry with attached original washrooms and office, charging room, and an expanded mill room.
Street address: 516-520 Dinwiddie Avenue (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 08000076
The Springhill Historic District is a national historic district encompassing an early-20th century residential neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. The neighborhood is located on the south side of the James River, just west of Cowardin Avenue and north of Semmes Avenue. It is roughly bounded on the north by Riverside Drive and on the west by Canoe Run Park. Although there was some residential development in this area earlier in the 19th century (as evidenced by the presence of a few Greek Revival houses), and the area was platted out as early as the 1870s, most construction took place in this area during the 1920s, and is in Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. The district also includes remnants of a 19th-century water supply system, the remains of the Manchester Waterworks, an underground aqueduct, and the remains of a water-control tower.
NRHP reference number: 13001173
St. Andrew's Church is an historic Episcopal church complex in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The complex consists of the church (1901), school (1901), parish hall (1904), Instructive Nurse Association Building (1904), and William Byrd Community House or Arents Free Library (1908). The church is a rough-faced Virginia granite, cruciform Gothic Revival style structure dominated by a 115-foot corner tower. The school and parish hall are three-story, brick buildings on a stone basements.
NRHP reference number: 79003294
St. Luke Building is a historic office building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1902, and is a four-story, brick Edwardian style building. The original building was designed by John H. White. It was then remodeled and enlarged in 1915–1920. From its start, the building housed the offices of the Independent Order of St. Luke, an African-American fraternal society headquartered in Richmond.
NRHP reference number: 82004589
St. Sophia Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, also known as the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, is a historic Catholic hospital and convent located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The original residence known as "Warsaw" was built in 1832, and subsequently incorporated into the Italianate style brick hospital building between 1877 and 1881. A convent wing was added in 1894 and a service wing in the 1950s. The building is a 3+1⁄2-story, brick structure on a brick basement with a Second Empire-style mansard roof.
Street address: 16 North Harvie Street (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 80004217
Stearns Iron-Front Building, also known as the Stearns Block, is a historic commercial building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1869, and is a four-story, 14 bay, brick building with a cast iron front. The building measures 107 feet (33 m) wide by 64 feet (20 m) deep.
NRHP reference number: 70000885
The Taylor–Mayo House, also known as the Mayo Memorial Church House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1845, and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style dwelling topped by a hipped roof. The front facade features a three-bay two-story Ionic order portico. The house was elaborately renovated during the 1880s.
NRHP reference number: 73002221
The Three Chopt Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 90 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures located west of downtown Richmond. The primarily residential area developed starting in the early-20th century as one of the city's early "streetcar suburbs." The buildings are in a variety of popular late-19th and early-20th century architectural styles including frame bungalows, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Mission Revival. There are a remarkable group of unusually large, architect-designed houses and churches. Notable non-residential buildings include St. Bridget's Catholic Church (1950) and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Located in the district is the separately listed Green's Farm (Huntley).
NRHP reference number: 12000520
The Two Hundred Block West Franklin Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. It is located between downtown and the Fan district. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings built during the 19th century and in a variety of popular architectural styles including Greek Revival, Federal, Beaux-Arts, and Queen Anne. Many of the dwellings have been converted to commercial use. Notable buildings include Queen Anne Row (1891), the Carter-Mayo House designed by Carrère and Hastings, the Cole Diggs House, the Smith-Palmer House, the Ida Schoolcraft House, the Price House, the A. S. Smith House, and the T. Seddon Bruce House.
NRHP reference number: 77001536, 94001238
Weisiger–Carroll House is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built about 1765, and is a two-story, vernacular, frame dwelling. It sits on a high brick basement, has a gable roof, and exterior end chimneys. The interior features original woodwork and a Federal style mantel. The house served as a hospital during the American Civil War and more than 100 Confederate soldiers who died there lie buried in a cemetery behind the house. The house was restored in the 1980s.
NRHP reference number: 94000454
The West Broad Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings built between about 1900 and the late 1930s. Located in the district is the Forbes Motor Car Company (1919), Harper-Overland Company building (1921), Firestone Building (1929), Engine Company No. 10 Firehouse (c. 1900), and the Saunders Station Post Office (1937). The majority of the buildings are two-to-four stories in height and are composed of brick with stucco, stone and metal detailing. Located in the district is the separately listed The Coliseum-Duplex Envelope Company Building.
NRHP reference number: 00001667
The West Broad Street Industrial and Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 29 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object built between 1902 and the 1930s. The District is characterized by a variety of architectural styles, including large industrial vernacular buildings, standard post-1900 commercial storefronts, and a large Modern-style department store. The majority of the buildings are two-to-four stories in height and are composed of brick with stucco, stone and metal detailing. Notable buildings include Putney Shoe Factory (1910), C.F. Sauer Headquarters (1910), L.H. Jenkins Book Manufactory (1902), Virginia School Supply Company (1913), the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (1925), and the former Sears department store (c. 1946). Located in the district is the separately listed Atlantic Motor Company.
NRHP reference number: 11000550
The West Franklin Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. It is located along the northern boundary of the Fan district. The district encompasses 71 contributing buildings built between about 1870 and the 1920. It was originally developed as a primarily residential district with buildings in a variety of popular late-19th and early-20th century architectural styles including Greek Revival, Romanesque, Georgian Revival, Queen Anne, and Italianate. Many of the dwellings have been converted to commercial use. In addition, the district's private houses have been converted into multi-family housing and departmental offices for Virginia Commonwealth University. Notable buildings include Franklin Terrace, the Ritter-Hickock House, First Independent Church, Founder's Hall, the Raleigh Building, The Greyston Apartments, Gresham Court Apartments, and the Beth Ahabah Congregation Hall and Synagogue.
NRHP reference number: 72001528, 09000731
Woodward House is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. The original section was built about 1782. It was subsequently enlarged to a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, frame dwelling. It sits on a brick basement, has a dormered gable roof, and three exterior end chimneys. During the first two decades of the 19th century, it was the home of John Woodward, Captain of the Sloop Rachell, and other craft operating from "Rocketts."
NRHP reference number: 74002243
Department of Public Utilities Howard (Overbrook) Road Facility is a historic material storage, repair facility and office complex located in Richmond, Virginia. The complex was begun in 1925, and consists of consists of three brick and concrete buildings, a two-story stucco building and a row of metal and brick storage sheds.
Street address: 1307, 1311, 1315, 1317, 1319 Overbrook Road (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 07000767
website: http://spcs.richmond.edu/
The Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (CENC) is a federally funded research project devised to address the long-term effects of mild traumatic brain injury in military service personnel (SMs) and Veterans. Announced by President Barack Obama on August 20, 2013, the CENC was one of two major initiatives developed in response to the injuries incurred by U.S. service personnel during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The project is jointly funded in the amount of $62.175 million by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The CENC is led by Dr. David X. Cifu of the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Powhite Creek is an 8.0-mile-long (12.9 km) stream rising near the unincorporated community of Bon Air in Chesterfield County and flowing into the independent city of Richmond in central Virginia. The creek empties into the James River in the region of the Fall Line, where the rapids of the James are located upstream from the head of navigation.
The Brown's Island Dam Walk, also known as the VEPCO Levee Dam is a structure across the James River in Richmond, Virginia that connects Brown's Island to the James River Parks System on the Manchester side of the river. It was originally constructed as a dam in 1901 by the Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO) (now known as Dominion Power). The original purpose for the 31.5 ft (9.6 m) tall structure was to divert water into the Haxall Canal where it was received by the 12th Street Power Station until its decommissioning in 1968. The bridge has been renamed the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial bridge after a senior planner in the Richmond Department of Planning and Development Review who was the project manager for the bridge's redevelopment into a pedestrian bridge.
The Hermitage Road Warehouse Historic District encompasses an industrial district in northern Richmond, Virginia. It is bounded on the west by Hermitage Street, on the east by Interstate 95, on the north by Sherwood Avenue, and on the south by Overbrook Road. This area, which contains mainly warehouses, was developed between 1918 and the 1950s, with most development taking place in the last decade of that period. The warehouses are generally single-story brick structures, although detailing appears in a variety of architectural styles. There are several multi-story buildings, notably a six-story office block attached to the warehouse of the A. H. Robins building. The land was originally owned by A. D. Williams, who began selling it off for development in 1918. Eastward development of the area was halted by the construction of I-95, and only one building was built after 1960.
NRHP reference number: 14000302
The James River Park System (also known as James River Park or simply JRPS) is a municipal park system in Richmond, Virginia encompassing over 600 acres (240 ha), with new parcels being added as part of an expansion effort underway between 2024 and 2025. It consists of multiple sections along the James River between the Huguenot Memorial Bridge in the west to a half mile (0.8 km) beyond the I–95 Bridge over the James in the east. It is a part of the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities.
Libby Hill is a small neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. Libby Hill is located on the southeastern spur of Church Hill, overlooking the James River and the Lucky Strike building. It is known for Libby Hill Park and "The View that Named Richmond". The Libby Hill neighborhood is entirely within the St. John's Church Historic District.
Richmond Tobacco Exchange was a commodities exchange in Richmond, Virginia, where tobacco was traded.
Shockoe Valley is an area in Richmond, Virginia, just east of downtown, along the James River, and is the entertainment center of the city. Located between Shockoe Hill and Church Hill, Shockoe Valley contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. Shockoe Valley encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Shockoe Slip, Shockoe Bottom and Tobacco Row along Cary Street.
NRHP reference number: 83003308
Pony Pasture Rapids (also commonly referred as Pony Pasture) is a section of the James River Park System that runs alongside the City of Richmond, VA. Nestled on the south bank of the James River downstream from the Huguenot Bridge, Pony Pasture is known for its local attractions of hiking, swimming, kayaking, and fishing. It has become a place for the residents of Richmond to experience the outdoors without having to leave town. With the help of park volunteers and funding from recycling projects, access to the rapids was made possible. The rapids, a class II, have become an introductory-level course for many rafters and kayakers in the area. Aside from the rapids, Pony Pasture Park hosts a lot of off-water activity. In addition to the park, there is Williams Island, an uninhabited 100-acre stretch of land that is nestled in the middle of the James River. Pony Pasture also has the largest parking lot in the James River Park System.
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Joseph P. Winston House, also known as the Winston House, is a historic residence in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1873-1874 for wholesale grocer Joseph P. Winston, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, brick residence. It features a half-story, ogee-curved mansard roof with black slate shingles. It also has an elaborate cast-iron front porch and original cast-iron picket fence with gate. Also included is the adjacent Richmond Art Company Building. It was designed in 1920 by prominent architect Duncan Lee, and is a three-story, stuccoed brick building in a Spanish-Mediterranean Revival style.
Street address: 101-103 East Grace Street (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 79003295
The Gallego Flour Mills was a flour mill located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Founded by Joseph Gallego in the 1790s, the mill gained international reputation for the superior type of flour that was shipped from there to Europe and South America. Further, the mills became iconic image of the defeated south after Mathew Brady shot a photo of the Mills after much of the city burned in 1865.
Richmond City Hall Observation Deck is the observation deck on the 18th floor of the Richmond, Virginia City Hall. While the public used to be able to access this through the elevators on the main floor, access is currently limited to city personnel only.
The American Association for the History of Medicine is an American professional association dedicated to the study of medical history.
website: http://www.histmed.org/
Near West End is a collection of neighborhoods in the western half of the Richmond, Virginia city limits, but not necessarily in suburban Henrico County. Near West End is subdivided into Windsor Farms, Lockgreen, Mary Munford, University of Richmond, and Westhampton.
Texas Beach in Richmond, Virginia is a riverside area located south of Maymont and west of Hollywood Cemetery. The area is named Texas Beach after Texas Avenue in the Maymont neighborhood, which was the original street to reach the recreation area. Today, it served via the North Bank Trail. The area is home to numerous river beaches, a skatepark, and mountain bike trails.
Malvern Gardens is a small, upper-middle class neighborhood in the West End of Richmond, Virginia.
Shed Town is a neighborhood in the East End that overlaps Church Hill and Union Hill, Richmond, Virginia.
The Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse, also known as the U.S. Post Office and Customhouse, is a historic custom house, post office and courthouse located in Richmond, Virginia. Originally constructed in 1858, it was for decades a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. A new federal district courthouse opened in 2008, but the Powell Courthouse still houses the Fourth Circuit. The United States Congress renamed the building for Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., in 1993. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as U.S. Post Office and Customhouse.
NRHP reference number: 69000359
Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a prominent slave-holding facility, or slave jail, and slave trading complex located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th and 18th Streets between the 1830s and the end of the American Civil War. Its final and most notorious owner, Robert Lumpkin, bought and sold slaves throughout the South for well over twenty years, and Lumpkin's Jail became Richmond's largest slave-holding facility.
Malcolm U. Pitt Field is a baseball venue located on the campus of the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The field is home to the Richmond Spiders baseball team of the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference. The field is named after former Spiders baseball and basketball coach Malcolm U. Pitt. It has a capacity of 600 people.
Manchester Wall is a rock climbing area located in Manchester, Richmond, Virginia that offers multiple routes for traditional climbing, sport climbing, and top roping. The sixty-foot granite wall is a remnant of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, which spanned the James River for much of the nineteenth century. The climbing area is located in the James River Park on the south side of the James River and is accessible by foot from the north via Brown's Island and the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge.
The Model Tobacco Factory is a historic industrial complex located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built beginning in 1938, and consists of ten contributing structures, including a prominent six-story rectangular factory building designed in the Art Deco style. The building was designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Schmidt, Garden and Erikson and is known for its Moderne "sky sign" that dominates the north end of the building.
Mosby Court is a housing project and neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. The neighborhood is named Mosby, while the housing project is named Mosby Court.
The Murphy Hotel (or Murphy's Hotel) was once a leading hotel in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Its location was at the corner of 8th and Broad Streets and for the last decade was known as the Commonwealth of Virginia's Eighth Street Office Building. The building shared a block with the Hotel Richmond, also known as the state's Ninth Street office building, and St. Peter's Church. It was deconstructed in late 2007 to give way to a modern high-rise that will house offices for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The National, formerly the National Theater and then Towne Theater, is a historic theater and performance venue located in Richmond, Virginia, US. Part of a section of Broad Street once known as Theatre Row, it is the only one of the three original auditoriums still standing. Built in 1923, the theater was constructed with an adaptable stage that allowed it to show early motion pictures as well as live performances. After a 1968 conversion to a dedicated cinema house it was renamed the Towne Theater, in which capacity it operated until closing in 1983. After an extensive renovation, the theater reopened in 2008 as The National, serving as a live music and performing arts venue.
Street address: 708 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.thenationalva.com; NRHP reference number: 03000188
The Norfolk Southern James River Bridge is a bridge that carries Norfolk Southern Railway traffic over the James River in downtown Richmond, Virginia. The bridge was built by the Southern Railway. The bridge is over 2,000 feet long, and also spans over the western edge of Mayo Island.
The Northside is an area composed of northern Richmond, Virginia and some parts of Henrico County, Virginia.
The Oakwood–Chimborazo Historic District is a national historic district of 434 acres (176 ha) located in Richmond, Virginia. It includes 1,284 contributing buildings, three contributing structures, five contributing objects and four contributing sites. It includes work by architect D. Wiley Anderson. The predominantly residential area contains a significant collection of late-19th and early-20th century, brick and frame dwellings that display an eclectic mixture of Late Victorian, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival styles.
NRHP reference number: 04001372
Old Town Manchester is a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia's Southside quadrant. The neighborhood is where downtown Manchester, Richmond, Virginia, United States, was situated before the city merged with Richmond. The area is heavily industrialized, but has gone through a series of gentrification for the last 10 years. Several lofts and art galleries have opened in the area.
Parker Field was a multi-use outdoor stadium in Richmond, Virginia, with a seating capacity of 9,500. The field was built in 1934, as part of the fair grounds, and was named after William H. Parker, who helped with the construction of the field. It was converted for minor league baseball in 1954, replacing Mooers Field.
The Peninsula Subdivision Trestle is a railroad trestle in Richmond, Virginia on the Peninsula Subdivision of CSX Transportation.
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) is the government agency responsible for community corrections and operating prisons and correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The agency is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association and is one of the oldest functioning correctional agencies in the United States. Its headquarters is located in the state capital of Richmond.
website: https://vadoc.virginia.gov/
The Red Cross with Imperial portraits egg (or the Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg) is a jewelled and enameled Easter egg made by Henrik Wigström (1862–1923) under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1915, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the Fabergé egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, in the same year.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support.
Street address: 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard (from Wikidata)
USGS GNIS ID: 2520533; website: https://www.vmfa.museum/, https://www.vmfa.museum/
The Richmond Theatre fire occurred in Richmond, Virginia, United States, on Thursday, December 26, 1811. It devastated the Richmond Theatre, located on the north side of Broad Street between what is now Twelfth and College Streets. The fire killed 72 people, including Virginia's governor George William Smith, former U.S. senator Abraham B. Venable, and other government officials in what was the worst urban disaster in U.S. history at the time. The Monumental Church was erected on the site as a memorial to the fire.
The 2015 UCI Road World Championships took place in Richmond, Virginia, United States from September 19–27, 2015. It was the 88th Road World Championships. Peter Sagan won the men's road race and Lizzie Armitstead won the women's road race.
website: http://www.richmond2015.com
USGS GNIS ID: 1779911
The Richmond Arts and Culture District stretches from the Institute for Contemporary Art on West Broad to the Virginia State Capitol and spans the Monroe Ward and Jackson Ward neighborhoods. The Arts District was designed to be the center of artistic, cultural, civic, and commercial activity. This district has worked to promote economic prosperity in this area of Richmond and create areas for art galleries and artist living spaces. This inclusive district offers a variety of experiences for all visitors and locals. The Arts District features and supports the history of the Jackson Ward neighborhood, the business activity along West Broad Street, the wide range of downtown art galleries, and eclectic dining and shopping experiences. The District is the first of its kind in the city of Richmond but state law allows there to be more than Arts District in each city.
Street address: 8040 Villa Park Drive, Henrico, VA, 23228 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.btsr.edu
The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge was a bridge that carried the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and several later railroads including the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad over the James River in Richmond, Virginia. It was first built in 1838 and after going through four different bridges was finally torn down in 1970.
Dominion Energy Center is a performing arts center in Richmond, Virginia that houses a number of venues including the historic Carpenter Theatre, Libby S. Gottwald Playhouse, Bob & Sally Mooney Hall, and the Genworth BrightLights Education Center. The theatre was formerly known as Richmond CenterStage.
Street address: 600 E. Grace Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.richmondcenterstage.com; NRHP reference number: 79003292
Richmond Public Schools is a public school district located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the Richmond-Petersburg region at large or the rural Richmond County, Virginia.
website: https://www.rvaschools.net/
Rio Vista is an unincorporated community in the City of Richmond, in the U.S. state of Virginia. Located at intersection of Three Chopt Road and River Road.
USGS GNIS ID: 1779901
The Rivanna Subdivision Trestle is a trestle in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the Rivanna Subdivision. The bridge is the upper level of Triple Crossing, and also crosses United States Route 360. It parallels the James River, and actually "steps" into it at one section. The bridge connects to the Peninsula Subdivision Trestle.
Saint Gertrude High School is an independent Catholic college preparatory day school for young women grades 9–12 in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 1922 by the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia, of Bristow Monastery, and is still owned and governed by the order, although the day-to-day operations are run by lay administrative and teaching staff. The school's goal is to provide young women with an academic education in an environment of Christian values and cultural diversity.
website: https://www.saintgertrude.org/
School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC) is a school of performing arts established in Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1981. SPARC teaches children ages 3–18 in performing arts, such as singing, acting, and dancing.
website: http://www.sparconline.org/
South Richmond is an area within the city of Richmond in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is on the south side of the James River, across from Richmond's downtown.
USGS GNIS ID: 1477039
The Southside of Richmond is an area of the Metropolitan Statistical Area surrounding Richmond, Virginia. It generally includes all portions of the City of Richmond that lie south of the James River, and includes all of the former city of Manchester. Depending on context, the term "Southside of Richmond" can include some northern areas of adjacent Chesterfield County, Virginia in the Richmond-Petersburg region. With minor exceptions near Bon Air, VA, the Chippenham Parkway forms the border between Chesterfield County and the City of Richmond portions of Southside, with some news agencies using the term "South Richmond" to refer to the locations in Southside located in the city proper.
Southside Baptist Christian School is a private Christian school located on the southside of Richmond, Virginia. It is a Christian school and is part of Southside Baptist Ministries. The school is mostly known for its basketball, volleyball and ensemble which perform throughout the city.
Steamer Company Number 5 is a former Richmond fire station located at 200 West Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia.
NRHP reference number: 95000027
The Coliseum–Duplex Envelope Company Building, also known as the Valentine Auction Company Building, is a building in Richmond, Virginia that was built in 1922 in Early Commercial style.
NRHP reference number: 99000077
Three Chopt is a neighborhood in western Richmond, Virginia that is located at the southern terminus of the famous Three Notch'd Road, which in itself serves as a main artery for the community. Located in the West End of the city, the neighborhood is directly to the east of the University of Richmond campus and the suburbs of Westham and Tuckahoe.
Tobacco Row is a collection of tobacco warehouses and cigarette factories in Richmond, Virginia, adjacent to the James River and Kanawha Canal near its eastern terminus at the head of navigation of the James River.
Transportation in Richmond, Virginia and its immediate surroundings include land, sea and air modes. This article includes the independent city and portions of the contiguous counties of Henrico and Chesterfield. While almost all of Henrico County would be considered part of the Richmond area, southern and eastern portions of Chesterfield adjoin the three smaller independent cities of Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights, collectively commonly called the Tri-Cities area. A largely rural section of southwestern Chesterfield may be considered not a portion of either suburban area.
The Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is one of two places in North America where three railroad lines cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being the BNSF operated Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City. Santa Fe Junction became a triple crossing after the Argentine Connection was completed in 2004.
Upper Shockoe Valley is a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia that straddles alongside Interstate 95. The name is given based on the Shockoe River Valley created within the boundaries of the neighborhood.
The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering (CERSE) is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, University-approved Center of Excellence furthering the science and serving the needs of persons with disabilities. CERSE is administrated and coordinated by the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, funded through the VCU Office of Research, the School of Medicine, the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), and the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS). CERSE serves as the mechanism for coordination, consolidation, and support of evidence based disability research endeavors from multiple schools and departments at VCU and a number of affiliate organizations. In partnership with the clinical services provided through the VCU Medical Center, the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center (VAMC), Sheltering Arms Rehabilitation Programs, VCU Children’s Hospital of Richmond, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps and other affiliated programs, CERSE has brought together researchers, clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, therapists, and academicians from the numerous backgrounds and specialties. These collaborations optimize resources, avoid duplication of effort, and increase the capacity to successfully compete for high-level grant and foundation funding. CERSE is currently composed of seven Research Cores built on the strength of existing disability research and training:
Belle Isle is a 54 acre island in the city of Richmond, Virginia on the James River, and is part of the James River Park System. It is accessible to pedestrian and bicycle traffic via a suspension footbridge that runs under the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge from the northern shore or via a wooden bridge from the southern shore. Except when the water level of the James is high, it is also reachable by foot from the southern shore via easy boulder-hopping. From Belle Isle, one can see Hollywood Cemetery, the old Tredegar Iron Works, and Richmond City's skyline. There are many bike trails around the island as well as a small cliff used for rock climbing instruction.
USGS GNIS ID: 1478171; NRHP reference number: 95000246
The Biotech and MCV District is the community that surrounds the MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Downtown Richmond, Virginia.
The Blues Armory is a large brick armory in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Housing the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, the castle-like structure originally served multiple purposes, with a food market on the ground floor and a drill hall for the National Guard of the United States on the top floor. The level between housed suites of offices for each individual National Guard company. The Richmond Spiders played their home basketball games at the site for a period of time. In 1985, the ground floor was converted to retail and restaurant space, part of the 6th Street Marketplace.
NRHP reference number: 76002229
Broad Street is a 15-mile-long (24 km) road located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, and adjacent Henrico County. Broad Street is significant to Richmond due to the many commercial establishments that have been built along it throughout Richmond's history. From downtown through miles into the suburbs, the street is largely dedicated to retailing and offices, including regional and neighborhood shopping centers and malls.
NRHP reference number: 87000611, 04000851, 07000219
Brown's Island is an artificial island on the James River in Richmond, Virginia, formed by the Haxall Canal. Part of the city's James River Park, it is the popular venue of a large number of outdoor concerts and festivals in the spring and summer, such as the weekly Friday Cheers concert series or Dominion Riverrock. The Rivanna Subdivision Trestle crosses over the island.
USGS GNIS ID: 1780474
The Byrd Theatre is a cinema in the Carytown neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It was named after William Byrd II, the founder of the city. The theater opened on December 24, 1928 to much excitement and is affectionately referred to as "Richmond’s Movie Palace". Though equipped with a Wurlitzer pipe organ, the theatre was also one of the first of its kind to be originally outfitted for sound motion pictures.
Street address: 2908 W. Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23221 (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 79003289; website: https://byrdtheatre.org/
The Centennial Dome, also known as the Virginia Centennial Center, was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague to serve as a focus for Virginia's efforts to publicize Virginia's Civil War history. It is one of the most modern structures ever built in Richmond. Built for the 1961 Civil War Centennial, it served as the Jonah L. Larrick Student Center on the Medical College of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth University until 2007.
The Central Office District is the central business district for Downtown Richmond, Virginia. The district contains a majority of the city core, with several high rises situated in this region of the city. The District houses the headquarters of the Fifth District of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. It also is home to Dominion Virginia Power's corporate headquarters, Kanawha Plaza and the Virginia Tourism Corporation. U.S. Route 60 (South 9th Street) is the main street through the district.
The Chamberlayne Industrial Center, sometimes simply known as Chamberlayne, is a heavy industry district within the boundaries of Richmond, Virginia's North Side region. The neighborhood contains a mixture of residential, commercial industrial-zoned areas, but most of the residential and commercial buildings are in the eastern corner of the neighborhood. The neighborhood is named after Chamberlayne Avenue (U.S. Route 1) which serves as the spine for the neighborhood.
The Chestnut Hill–Plateau Historic District is a historic area in the Highland Park neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It is also known as 'Highland Park Southern Tip' on city neighborhood maps.
NRHP reference number: 02000366
Arthur Ashe Boulevard (also referred to as "the Boulevard") is a historic street in the near the West End of Richmond, Virginia, providing access to Byrd Park. It serves as the border between the Carytown/Museum District to the west and the Fan district to the east. Attempts were made to rename the street after Arthur Ashe, a tennis star and social activist who was born and grew up in Richmond, but previous attempts failed until February 2019 when Richmond City Council voted in favor of changing the name to Arthur Ashe Boulevard. Near the south end is Richmond's Boulevard Bridge (commonly called the "Nickel Bridge", in reference to its historical initial toll) across the James River. Arthur Ashe Boulevard intersects with main arteries Cary Street, Main Street, Monument Avenue, Broad Street (where the Historic District ends), Leigh Street, and Interstate 64/95, and terminates at Hermitage Road. The Diamond is located on Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The intersection of Arthur Ashe Boulevard and Monument Avenue featured a statue of Stonewall Jackson.
NRHP reference number: 86002887
Powhite Park is a 100-acre park in the city limits of Richmond, Virginia. It is close to the junction of Powhite Parkway, Chippenham Parkway and Jahnke Road. This park is notable for its pristinity and beaver dam, considering the park is in city limits. The park is also populated by deer. The bike trail is considered moderate.
USGS GNIS ID: 1780802
The Richmond Professional Institute (RPI) was an educational institution established in 1917, which merged with the Medical College of Virginia in 1968 to form Virginia Commonwealth University. RPI was located on what is now known as the Monroe Park Campus of VCU. The entire history of RPI can be found in "A History of the Richmond Professional Institute" written by Dr. Henry H. Hibbs Jr. From 1925, it was part of the College of William & Mary and, later, The Colleges of William & Mary.
Benjamin Watkins Leigh House, also known as the Wickham-Leigh House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built between 1812 and 1816, and is a three-story, four bay by three bay dwelling showcases Federal style architecture rectangular stuccoed brick. It features an Italianate bracketed cornice and a small Italianate front porch. It was the home of Senator Benjamin W. Leigh (1781-1849) and sold to Lieutenant Governor John Munford Gregory (1804-1884) upon Leigh's death in 1849. The house was sold to the Sheltering Arms Hospital in 1932, after which a large three-story wing was added to the east side connecting it to the William H. Grant House. The house was later sold to the Medical College of Virginia and used for offices.
NRHP reference number: 69000352
Reveille, also known as the Brick House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. The house consists of three sections. The main 2+1⁄2-story house dates to about 1806; the 1+1⁄2-story west wing dates to 1839; and a rear kitchen wing was added to the west wing in 1920. The house is an example of an early 19th-century Federal style country residence. In 1950 the property and house were acquired by the Reveille United Methodist Church.
NRHP reference number: 79003293
William Beers House, also known as the Beers House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1839, and is a three-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling crowned by an Italianate bracketed cornice and shallow hipped roof. It features an entrance with sidelights and pilasters framed by a porch containing coupled Greek Doric order columns. The house was enlarged to a full three stories in 1860. In 1965 the house was acquired by the Medical College of Virginia.
NRHP reference number: 69000346
Green's Farm (Huntley), also known as Roselawn, is a historic estate located in Richmond, Virginia. The original section of the main house was built between 1843 and 1846, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick dwelling with a slate-covered hipped roof. It has additions built in 1906 and about 1977. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen (c. 1846), well house (c. 1846), and ice house. During the American Civil War, the original portion of the house was used as a field hospital and saw some action in March 1864 during Dahlgren's Raid.
NRHP reference number: 05001228
Taylor Farm is a historic farm complex located in Richmond, Virginia. The complex consists of a well-preserved group of buildings and landscape elements ranging in date from the 1870s to the 1930s. they include a small two-story frame main house, a handsome American Craftsman-style garage, a storage shed, a barn, a corncrib, a lumber shed, and a poultry house.
NRHP reference number: 90002158
The 2900 Block Grove Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses five contributing buildings including three Queen Anne style houses and a square house with Mission/Spanish Revival decorative details. The houses were built between the late-1890s and 1912. Also included is a row of wooden carriage houses with cupolas and gingerbread scroll work.
NRHP reference number: 73002223
Barton Heights Cemeteries is a set of six contiguous historic African-American cemeteries located in Richmond, Virginia, though were originally part of Henrico County. The cemeteries are the Cedarwood, originally called Phoenix and established in 1815, Union Mechanics, Methodist, Sycamore, Ebenezer, and Sons and Daughters of Ham cemeteries. The cemeteries were established between 1815 and circa 1879, and include hundreds of burials.
NRHP reference number: 02000364
The Almshouse, also known as the City Home is a historic almshouse and hospital complex located in Richmond, Virginia.
NRHP reference number: 81000647, 89001913
Branch Building, also known as the Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Company, is a historic commercial building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built about 1886, and is a four-story, four-bay, brick building with a cast iron front. The building measures 26 feet wide by 140 feet deep.
NRHP reference number: 70000878
Henry Coalter Cabell House is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. Its name reflects the prominent Richmond attorney and Confederate officer Henry Coalter Cabell, who rented the elegant house for many years.
NRHP reference number: 72001519
St. Alban's Hall, also known as The Crenshaw Building, is a historic Masonic Lodge located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1869, and is a three-story, stuccoed brick Italianate style building. The Hall consisted of shops, a concert hall, as well as Masonic meeting rooms, and served as an important focus of post-Civil War Richmond's social and political life.
NRHP reference number: 82004588
The Block 0-100 East Franklin Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. It is located west of downtown. The district encompasses 21 contributing buildings built between about 1840 and 1920. The district is characterized by numerous mid- to late-19th century brick town houses in a variety of popular 19th-century architectural styles including Queen Anne, Italianate, and Greek Revival.
NRHP reference number: 80004216
The Carver Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located at Carver, Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings located west of downtown Richmond. The industrial area developed between 1890 and 1930, along the tracks of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th-century and early 20th century architectural styles including Queen Anne and Romanesque.
NRHP reference number: 00000559
The Carver Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Carver, Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 312 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site located west of downtown Richmond. The primarily residential area developed starting in the mid-19th century. The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th-century and early 20th-century architectural styles, including Gothic Revival and Greek Revival. Notable buildings include the Hardin Davis House (1842), Amanda Ragland House (1843), Reuben Lacy House (1859), Rueben T. Hill House (1900), George Washington Carver Elementary School (1887), Moore Street Baptist Church (1909), Baughman Brothers/Biggs Antique Company building (1924), and the T&E Laundry Company Building (c. 1915).
NRHP reference number: 02000365, 06000975
Henry Mansfield Cannon Memorial Chapel, also known as Cannon Chapel, is an American historic chapel located on the University of Richmond campus in Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by architect Charles M. Robinson and built in 1929 in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of brick, stone, and concrete and has a rectangular plan with a telescoping projection at the rear. During the mid-1980s, new stained glass windows were installed as part of a renovation project.
NRHP reference number: 13000259
Crenshaw House, also known as Younger House and Clay House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1891, and is a three-story, Victorian Italianate style brick townhouse. The house was altered by the architectural firm of Noland and Baskervill in 1904. It features a flat roof decorated with a Doric entablature and copper cresting, a full height three-sided bay window, and an entry porch supported by paired Doric order columns. At two meetings in November 1909, a group of women met at the home to form what would become the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESL).
NRHP reference number: 10000585
Donnan–Asher Iron-front Building is a historic commercial building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1866, and is a four-story, 12 bay, Italianate style brick building with a cast iron front.
NRHP reference number: 70000879
Fairmount School, which became known as Helen Dickinson School from 1925 until 1958 (when it returned to its original name) and is now the Fairmount House, is a historic school building located in Richmond, Virginia. The two-story brick building was constructed circa 1895 on a high basement in the Gothic Revival style. It features two slate-covered, mansard roofed towers. A two-story addition designed by Albert F. Huntt (1868–1920) was added in 1908–1909.
NRHP reference number: 05001227
First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory, is a historic armory building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1895, and is a two-story. Late Victorian style brick structure. It also is known as the Leigh Street Armory, the Monroe School, and the Monroe Center.
NRHP reference number: 09001158
The Battery Court Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 549 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site (Battery Park) located north of downtown Richmond and west of Barton Heights and Brookland Park. The primarily residential area developed starting in the early-20th century as one of the city's early “streetcar suburbs.” The buildings are in a variety of popular late-19th and early-20th century architectural styles including frame bungalows, American Foursquare, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Mission Revival. Notable non-residential buildings include the Overbrook Presbyterian Church (now All Souls Presbyterian) and Battery Park Christian Church (now Mount Hermon Baptist).
NRHP reference number: 02000594
Bolling Haxall House, also known as the Woman's Club, is a historic residential building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built by Bolling Walker Haxall in 1858 and is a three-story Italian Villa style dwelling of sandstone-colored stucco, scored to imitate ashlar. It features a projecting central entrance on the front facade, a raised portico (with arched openings) supported by four fluted columns, and an elaborate double-bracketed, dentiled cornice. An auditorium was added in 1916, after the home's acquisition by the Woman's Club in 1900.
NRHP reference number: 72001522
The Brookland Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 1,157 contributing buildings located north of downtown Richmond and Barton Heights.
NRHP reference number: 02000591
Holly Lawn, also known as the Richmond Council of Garden Clubs House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1901, and is a large 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style buff-colored brick dwelling with an irregular plan and massing. It features a one-story, wrap-around porch; a two-story entrance tower topped by a pyramidal roof; and a hipped roof broken by gable-, hipped-, and conical roofed dormers with square casement windows. Holly Lawn was built for Andrew Bierne Blair, a prominent Richmond insurance agent.
NRHP reference number: 82004587
The Hotel John Marshall, first opened in 1929, was one of the leading hospitality establishments in downtown Richmond, Virginia. After the hotel closed in 2004, the building was renovated into upscale residential apartments that opened in December 2011.
Chamberlayne Gardens is a historic apartment complex located in Richmond, Virginia. The complex was built in 1945–1946, and consists of 52 Colonial Revival style brick buildings, attached in 16 groups. They have four building plans, are two to three stories in height and contain a total of 216 one- and two-bedroom apartments. The buildings alternate in either red or buff-colored brick, and have either a gabled slate roof (most common) or a flat roof with parapet ends capped with the original tile. The complex was designed by Norfolk architect Bernard Betzig Spigel and built under the auspices of the Federal Housing Administration.
NRHP reference number: 07000390
Columbia, also known as the Philip Haxall House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. A rare surviving Federal villa, Columbia was built in 1817-18 for Philip Haxall of Petersburg, who moved to Richmond in 1810 to operate the Columbia Flour Mills, from which the house derives its name. The building is a two-story, three bay Federal style brick dwelling on a high basement. The entrance features an elliptical fanlight opening sheltered by a one-story Doric porch that was added when the entrance was moved from the Lombardy Street side to the Grace Street side in 1924, when the building was expanded to house the T.C. Williams School of Law of the University of Richmond. In 1834 the Baptist Education Society purchased the house and it became the main academic building of Richmond College, later University of Richmond. It housed the School of Law from 1917 to 1954. In 1984 Columbia was purchased by the American Historical Foundation for its headquarters. The Foundation maintained its offices and a military museum at the property before selling Columbia in 2005. In 2013, Columbia was put up for auction and by late 2014 Thalhimer Realty Partners, Inc. (a Virginia-based division of Cushman & Wakefield) had purchased the property, repurposing the historic home from office space into Columbia Apartments.
NRHP reference number: 82004585
English Village is a historic cooperative apartment complex in Richmond, Virginia. The planned community was designed by Richmond architect Bascom Joseph Rowlett and built in 1927. It consists of Tudor Revival style brick and half-timber buildings. The building complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
NRHP reference number: 83003302
The Fifth and Main Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 38 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object located south of the Grace Street Commercial Historic District. It reflects the core of the city's early-20th century retail development. The district includes representative examples of the Federal, Greek Revival, Classical Revival and International Style architecture built between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. Notable buildings include the Equitable Life Insurance Building (1951), the Massey Building (1952, 1963–64), and 400 East Main Street (1951). Located in the district is the separately listed St. Alban's Hall (1869).
NRHP reference number: 06000750, 12000989
USGS GNIS ID: 1780817
The William H. Grant House, also known as Sheltering Arms Hospital, is a historic house located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1857, and is a large, three-story brick townhouse in the Italianate style. It features a small, richly ornamented arched front porch supported by coupled square columns. In 1892, the house was acquired by the Sheltering Arms Hospital, who occupied it until 1965. It is connected to the Benjamin Watkins Leigh House.
NRHP reference number: 69000356
William R. Trigg Company, also the Trigg Shipbuilding Company, was an inland shipyard in Richmond, Virginia. The shipyard produced torpedo boats and destroyers and the protected cruiser USS Galveston (CL-19) for the United States Navy. It was founded by William R. Trigg, who also owned the Richmond Locomotive Works in 1899. The yard went into receivership and ceased operations by 1903, the same year its founder died.
Whitcomb Court is a public housing project in the East End part of Richmond, Virginia that is north of Union Hill. The housing project is tucked away by the interchange of U.S. Route 360 Mechanicsville Turnpike and Interstate 64. Whitcomb and Sussex St. serve as the spine of the community.
USGS GNIS ID: 1780821
The French Film Festival - Richmond, VA was an annual film festival held in Richmond, Virginia, focused on recently produced French-language films.
website: http://www.frenchfilmfestival.us/
The VCU Medical Center (VCU Health), formerly known as the Medical College of Virginia (MCV), is the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), located in downtown Richmond, Virginia, United States. As MCV, VCU Medical Center merged with the Richmond Professional Institute in 1968 to create VCU. In the 1990s, the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Authority was created to oversee MCV Hospitals. In 2004, the name of this authority was changed to the VCU Health System, and the MCV Hospitals and surrounding campus were named the VCU Medical Center. The authority oversees the employees and real estate occupied by the five schools within the VCU Medical Center. It was at this time that the MCV Campus moniker was created.
website: http://www.vcu.edu/medcenter/
The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine is the medical school of Virginia Commonwealth University, a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. It is the largest and second oldest medical school in Virginia. The school traces its beginnings to the 1838 opening of the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, which in 1854 became an independent institution known as the Medical College of Virginia (MCV). In 1968, MCV joined with the Richmond Professional Institute to form Virginia Commonwealth University. The School of Medicine is one of six schools on VCU's MCV Campus, which includes the VCU Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU.
website: http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is a department of the government of Virginia, United States; it oversees all Virginia state parks and Natural Area Preserves.
website: http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/
The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, non-profit organization, supported almost entirely by private contributions. In 2004, it was designated the official state historical society of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
website: http://www.vahistorical.org, https://www.virginiahistory.org/
The Virginia Manufactory of Arms was a state-owned firearms manufacturer and arsenal in what is today Richmond, Virginia. It was established by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1798 to supply the Virginia militia with firearms and related items such as swords and bayonets. The factory originally operated from 1802 or 1803 to 1821.
The Virginia War Memorial is a 1955 memorial in Richmond, Virginia, originally dedicated to Virginians killed in World War II and the Korean War. In 1980, the Shrine was enlarged to honor those Virginians killed in action in the Vietnam War. In 1996, the names of Virginians killed in action during Desert Storm/Desert Shield were added. Today, there are nearly 12,000 Virginians whose names are engraved on the Shrine of Memory's glass and stone walls. Reflecting the different character of war today, Virginia has created a special Memorial Shrine to honor the over 250 Virginians killed in the Global War on Terrorism.
WCFC-LP is a Contemporary Christian formatted broadcast radio station licensed to and serving Richmond, Virginia. WCFC-LP is owned and operated by Crusade For Christ Family Worship Church COGIC.
website: http://www.cfcfamily.org/
WCVE-FM ("VPM News", 88.9 MHz) is a public radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, serving the Greater Richmond Region. WCVE-FM is owned and operated by Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation. CPBC also owns Channel 23 WCVE-TV, the PBS member station in Richmond, as well as other TV and FM stations in Virginia.
USGS GNIS ID: 1502699; website: http://www.ideastations.org/radio
WNRN (1590 AM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, and serving the Greater Richmond Region. WNRN is owned and operated by Stu-Comm, Inc. It airs an adult album alternative radio format, simulcasting sister station WNRN-FM in Charlottesville, Virginia. WNRN is listener supported, with on-air fundraisers held throughout the year.
website: http://www.wnrn.org/
WLES (590 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Bon Air, Virginia, United States, serving the Greater Richmond Region. WLES is owned and operated by Stuart Epperson, through licensee Truth Broadcasting Corporation. It airs a Christian radio format as part of "The Truth Network", originating in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Programming is also heard on FM translator station W249CI at 97.7 MHz.
website: http://www.truthnetwork.com/
WRIR-LP (97.3 FM) is an independent, all volunteer, nonprofit community public radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia, serving Metro Richmond. It is the largest low power FM station of its kind in the United States. WRIR-LP is owned and operated by the Virginia Center for Public Press. The station's studios are located on West Broad Street and its transmitter is located northeast of downtown Richmond. WRIR-LP began broadcasting on January 1, 2005.
website: http://www.wrir.org/
WBTL (1320 kHz) is a regional Mexican formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Ashland, Virginia, serving Metro Richmond. WBTL is owned and operated by Michael Mazursky, through licensee Mobile Radio Partners, Inc.
WTVR-FM (98.1 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia. WTVR-FM serves Central Virginia with an adult contemporary music format. The station is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. with studios and offices located north of Richmond's city limits on Basie Road in Dumbarton. It formerly shared a nearby broadcasting tower with its former TV sister station, WTVR-TV. (WTVR-TV no longer broadcasts from this tower.) Currently, it shares a tower with PBS member stations WCVE-TV and WCVW.
website: http://www.lite98.com/; USGS GNIS ID: 1502698
WXGI (950 AM) is a classic hip hop formatted radio station licensed to Richmond, Virginia. WXGI is owned and operated by Urban One. The station's studios and offices are located just north of Richmond proper on Emerywood Parkway in unincorporated Henrico County, and its transmitter is located in the Southside of Richmond.
website: https://espnrichmond.com/; USGS GNIS ID: 1502559
WYFJ is a religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Ashland, Virginia, serving Metro Richmond. WYFJ is owned and operated by Bible Broadcasting Network.
USGS GNIS ID: 1502601; website: http://www.bbnradio.org/wcm4/english/Stations/tabid/691/StationID/14/Default.aspx
Warwick was an unincorporated town and port in Chesterfield County, Virginia, located on the navigable portion of the James River about 5 miles south of downtown Richmond, Virginia (and east of the Fall Line). Due to a sandbar in the river, although the falls did not begin until the river reached Richmond and Manchester, Warwick was as far upriver as many ships of the day could safely navigate. Regarding navigation on the James River, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, written in 1781–82, then-Governor Thomas Jefferson stated "Vessels of 250 tons may go to Warwick" [1]
The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site. Before its removal on September 8, 2021, the monument honored Confederate General Robert E. Lee, depicted on a horseback atop a large marble base that stood over 60 feet (18 m) tall. Constructed in France and shipped to Virginia, it remained the largest installation on Monument Avenue for over a century; it was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 and the Virginia Landmarks Register in 2006.
NRHP reference number: 06001213; USGS GNIS ID: 1780485
Graymont is a historic mansion in Richmond, Virginia, US. The house, located near the Carytown District, was the childhood home of the socialite Tinsley Mortimer.
A statue of Harry F. Byrd, the 50th governor of Virginia, was installed in Capitol Square, Richmond, Virginia, in 1976. The statue was removed in 2021.
The Southern Railway Depot on 14th Street in Richmond, Virginia, was a passenger station for the Southern Railway that operated from 1900 to 1914. Another name of this depot was Mill Street Station. Previously, the Southern had operated its Richmond passenger service out of an old Richmond and Danville Railroad wooden frame depot that laid about 600 feet south of the 14th Street Depot. This depot had been constructed around 1865–1866 to replace the one built in the early 1850s and burnt in the Fall of Richmond in April 1865. The original R&D depot had been the departure station for the train carrying Confederacy Jefferson Davis and his cabinet to Danville immediately before Richmond fell to the Union Army during the Civil War.
The Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District is a historic district located in the city of Richmond, Virginia, and is a significant example of a municipal almshouse–public hospital–cemetery complex of the sort that arose in the period of the New Republic, following disestablishment of the Anglican Church. The district illustrates changing social and racial relationships in Richmond through the New Republic, Antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow/Lost Cause eras of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Pratt's Castle was a home located in the historic Gambles Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1854, the structure was a rare Virginia example of Gothic Revival architecture.
The Country Club of Virginia (CCV) is a private country club located in Richmond, Virginia. Spanning 1,111 acres, it contains three eighteen-hole golf courses, two clubhouses, and numerous other sport and recreational facilities. The club was founded in 1908, and its first clubhouse and Herbert Barker-designed golf course were completed in Richmond's Westhampton neighborhood in 1910. Its James River Course, designed by William Flynn, opened in 1928; it has hosted many prominent events, including the 1955 and 1975 U.S. Amateurs and, since 2016, the annual Dominion Energy Charity Classic. A third course, the Tuckahoe Creek Course, opened in 1988.
The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is a state supervised and locally administered social services system in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The department is headed by a Commissioner who is appointed by the Governor of Virginia. VDSS provides oversight and guidance to over 120 local offices across the state of Virginia, and administers various programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, Adoption, Foster Care, Child Care Assistance, Refugee Resettlement Services, and Child and Adult Protective Services.
website: http://www.dss.virginia.gov/
The American Tobacco Company, South Richmond Complex Historic District encompasses a complex of tobacco storage, processing, and research facilities at 400-800 Jefferson Davis Highway in Richmond, Virginia. Included in the 16-acre (6.5 ha) site are four large warehouses, processing buildings including a stemmery and a re-drying plant, and ancillary buildings and structures, including the American Tobacco Company's 1939 research laboratory. The complex exhibits a historical range of trends in the processing and storage of tobacco.
NRHP reference number: 16000536
The Blair Tobacco Storage Warehouse Complex Historic District encompasses a complex of tobacco storage and processing facilities at 2601 Maury Street in Richmond, Virginia. Included in the 26-acre (11 ha) site are 26 large warehouses, and a number of ancillary buildings. The complex exhibits a historical range of trends in the processing and storage of tobacco, dating from its inception in 1939 into the 1980s. The Blair Storage Company was founded in 1939 by Joseph Blair, the son of a dry goods dealer, who had diversified into the transport of tobacco and other goods before opening the storage facility.
NRHP reference number: 16000538
The Higgins Doctors Office Building is a historic commercial building at 1207-1211 E. Main St. in Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1954, it is a distinctive and unusual example of a round commercial building. It is a single story in height, with a flat roof. Its exterior walls are a combination of glass windows and concrete blocks with cross motif, with outside courtyard terraces. The entrances are set in recesses. The property's landscape continues a circular theme, with flower beds, fencing, and parking arranged in concentric patterns around the structure. It was designed by the Washington, DC firm of Deigert & Yerkes.
NRHP reference number: 100000987
The North Thompson Street Historic District encompasses a collection of six International Style commercial buildings on North Thompson Street, between Monument Avenue and Broad Street, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. All are built of steel, brick, and concrete, and feature expanses of glass and asymmetrical plans. They were built between 1955 and 1959, as part of a buffer zone of "quiet commerce" between the Beltline Expressway on one side and the residential area on the other.
NRHP reference number: 100001644
The Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District encompasses a complex of tobacco storage and processing facilities at 2301 Maury Street in Richmond, Virginia. Included in the 12-acre (4.9 ha) site are a series of warehouses and cigarette-making factories developed beginning in the 1950s. Philip Morris USA built this complex in part to capitalize on advances in machinery that greatly increased the production speed of cigarettes.
NRHP reference number: 100001049
Sherwood Park is one of several historical neighborhoods that comprise the area known as Northside in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
Rockfalls is a historic house at 7441 Rockfalls Drive in Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1936–37, it is a locally prominent early example of International Style architecture, based on designs by Edward Durell Stone published in Collier's. Its exterior is primarily granite and glass, the former probably quarried from a site on the grounds. It exhibits classical International elements including a lack of adornment, emphasis on horizontality, and clean lines with some rounded surfaces.
NRHP reference number: 100000678
The statue of the Confederate States of America cavalry general Williams Carter Wickham by Edward Virginius Valentine was installed in Richmond, Virginia's Monroe Park in 1891, near Virginia Commonwealth University's main campus. It was toppled in June 2020 during the George Floyd protests.
The Belle Isle railroad bridge was a bridge that carried a spur of the Richmond and Danville Railroad across the James River and Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1872 to haul iron from the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works mills on Belle Isle and the Tredegar Ironworks on the north side of the James. The line ran from the R & D in northwest Manchester and immediately started across a railroad trestle bridge to Belle Isle and the Old Dominion Works and the onto the Tredegar works. From Tredegar, the railroad line ran east to intersect with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad.
The Howitzer Monument was installed in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States. It commemorated the Richmond Howitzers, a Confederate artillery unit. The statue was created by Caspar Buberl. It was located on Virginia Commonwealth University's Monroe Park campus.
A statue of Joseph Bryan was installed in Richmond, Virginia's Monroe Park, in the United States. The memorial was removed in July 2020.
The Matthew Fontaine Maury Monument, was a memorial installed along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue depicting Matthew Fontaine Maury and commemorating his Confederate naval service and contributions to oceanography and naval meteorology. It featured the engraved moniker "Pathfinder of the Seas". In July 2020, the bronze statue of Maury and other sculptural elements were removed from the monument by the city of Richmond, in response to local protests connected to nationwide unrest sparked by the murder of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis; the rest of the monument was removed in February 2022.
USGS GNIS ID: 1779921
The J. E. B. Stuart Monument is a deconstructed monument to Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart at the head of historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, which was dedicated in 1907. The equestrian statue of General Stuart was removed from its pedestal and placed into storage on July 7, 2020 after having stood there for 113 years. The removal was in response to nationally reported events of police brutality and a corresponding emergency declaration in Virginia. The granite pedestal, which stood empty for nineteen months, was finally dismantled in February 2022.
USGS GNIS ID: 1780482
The Jefferson Davis Memorial was a memorial for Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865, installed along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, in the United States. The monument was unveiled on Davis' birthday, June 3, 1907, a day celebrated in Virginia and many other Southern states as Confederate Memorial Day. It consisted of a bronze statue of Davis by Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine surrounded by a colonnade of 13 columns representing the Southern states, and a tall Doric column topped by a bronze statue, also by Valentine, representing Southern womanhood.
USGS GNIS ID: 1779938
The Stonewall Jackson Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was erected in honor of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, a Confederate general. The monument was located at the centre of the crossing of Monument Avenue and North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, in Richmond, Virginia. The bronze equestrian statue was unveiled in 1919. Along this avenue were other statues including Robert E. Lee, J. E. B. Stewart, Jefferson Davis, Matthew Maury and more recently Arthur Ashe. Thomas Jackson is best known as one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted commanders throughout the early period of the American Civil War between Southern Confederate states and Northern Union states. He rose to prominence after his vital role in the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, continuing to command troops until his untimely death on May 10, 1863, after falling fatally ill following the amputation of his wounded arm.
USGS GNIS ID: 1780493
Larus and Brother Company (1877–1968) was a diversified tobacco company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The company manufactured pipe tobacco, cigarettes, and charcoal. It also operated local radio and television stations.
The Virginia Department of Forensic Science (DFS) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its purpose is to provide laboratory services in criminal matters in Virginia and to increase understanding of forensic science in general.
website: http://www.dfs.virginia.gov/
Spotswood Hotel was a five-story luxury hotel located in Richmond, Virginia. After Richmond became the capital of the Confederacy in May 1861, the hotel served as a meeting space for the leaders of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis used the Spotswood as his home until the White House of the Confederacy was completed. Due to the hotel's clientele and their association with the Confederacy, the Spotswood became a hub of espionage. On Christmas Day, 1870, the Spotswood Hotel was engulfed in flames and destroyed.
The Lobby Day 2020 was a gun rights rally that took place on January 20, 2020, at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. The rally was an extension of the Second Amendment sanctuary movement and was organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Fears of violence from neo-Nazis prompted Virginia governor Ralph Northam to declare a state of emergency ahead of the event, although the event concluded peacefully with no reports of violence.
The R. E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home was a support home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War. It was located in Richmond, Virginia, and was active from 1885 to 1941.
The James Center is a mixed-use complex of buildings located in Richmond, Virginia. The complex consists of three office buildings (One, Two, and Three James Center) and the Omni Hotel. Overall, the complex contains over 2.5 million square feet. The genesis of the James Center began in July 1970, when the Chesapeake and Ohio and Seaboard Coast Line railroad companies announced the creation of the James Center Development Company aimed at developing a 7.5 acre parcel of land in the downtown Richmond. This parcel of land was being used by the C&O as a railroad freight yard but was growing increasingly obsolete by nature of Richmond's slowing industrial capacities in the 1960s. The SCL was involved in the project due to its exchange of money to the C&O derived from the sale of the SCL's Byrd Street Station property. This sale involved the land which would become the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Riverfront Plaza is twin-tower office building complex in the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia. Built from 1988 to 1990 on the former site of the Old Mansion Coffee Co., it was developed as a joint venture of the law firm Hunton & Williams (now Hunton Andrews Kurth), which still occupies most of the east tower; the Daniel Corporation; and Wheat, First Securities.
website: https://riverfrontplazarichmond.com/
The Tower Building is a historic office building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1961 by architect David Warren Hardwicke, and designed in the International Style. It features a brise soleil made of brick as well as a ground floor shaded parking lot situated underneath the building's two stories of offices. The structure derives its name from the WTVR TV Tower located across the street.
The Richmond Theatre was the name of four theatres located in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States. The first theatre was originally established in 1786 as the Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences of the United States or Quesnay's Academy. It was renamed the Richmond Theatre after it came under the management of Thomas Wade West and John Bignall. It was destroyed by fire in 1798. The second Richmond Theatre opened in 1806 on the same site and was destroyed by fire in 1811. The 1811 Richmond Theatre fire is considered a significant disaster in the history of the city, and was described by historian Meredith Henne Baker as "early America's first great disaster".
600 Canal Place is 20-story, 417-foot-tall skyscraper in Richmond, Virginia. The tower serves as the headquarters for Dominion Energy. It is located at 600 East Canal Street.
In January 2025, the city of Richmond, Virginia and its surrounding localities suffered water distribution outages due to a blizzard which impacted much of the United States. The issues started on the morning of Monday, January 6, and were mostly resolved by Saturday, January 11. The localities' water systems are interconnected, meaning that problems in Richmond City led to problems across the region. Richmond was the most impacted, followed by Henrico to the immediate north. Henrico is bordered on the north by Hanover County and on the west by Goochland County, which also faced some impacts. Chesterfield County, to the south of Richmond, was impacted very little, as they were able to effectively switch water sources and have very few customers who directly receive water from the city.
Gordon–Baughan–Warren House, also known as Boyd House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. The original section was built about 1835, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, Greek Revival style vernacular frame dwelling. It was subsequently enlarged over the years in at least three building campaigns – c. 1860, c. 1910, and c. 1920. The house is seven-bays wide and has an irregular plan. Also on the property are the contributing guesthouse (c. 1860) and a garage (c. 1860, c. 1910).
NRHP reference number: 05001621
The Grace Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 93 contributing buildings located in downtown Richmond. The buildings reflect the core of the city's early 20th-century retail development and the remnants of a 19th-century residential neighborhood. The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th-century and early 20th-century architectural styles, including Classical Revival, Mission Revival, International Style, and Colonial Revival. Notable buildings include the Administration and Equipment Building for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (1929), Thalhimer's Department Store, Atlantic Life Building (1950-1959), Miller & Rhoads Department Store, Berry-Burk Building, former W. W. Foster Studios (1927), Bank of Virginia (1949), Investment Realty Company building (1930), W.T. Grant Store (1939), Hotel John Marshall (1927), Franklin Federal Savings and Loan building (1954), and the Tompkins House (1820). Located in the district and separately listed are the Loew's Theatre, Centenary United Methodist Church, Joseph P. Winston House, Central National Bank, and National Theater.
NRHP reference number: 98000739, 09000924
Hasker and Marcuse Factory, originally part of the American Can Company, is a historic factory building located in Richmond, Virginia. The original section was built in 1893 and expanded through 1915. It is a four- to five-story, brick industrial building. The factory housed manufacturers of printed, polychromatic tin boxes and tin tags (labels) for plugs of chewing tobacco.
NRHP reference number: 83003303
Kent Road Village is a historic apartment complex and national historic district located in Richmond, Virginia. The complex was built in 1942–1943, and consists of 11 Colonial Revival style brick buildings. They are two stories in height and include three different exterior treatments. The complex was designed by Richmond architect E. Tucker Carlton and built under the auspices of the Federal Housing Administration.
NRHP reference number: 11000549
The Laburnum Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 226 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures located north of downtown Richmond. The primarily residential area developed starting in the early-20th century as one of the city's early "streetcar suburbs" and as home to several important local institutions. The buildings are in a variety of popular early-20th century architectural styles including Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. It was developed as neighborhood of middle-to-upper-class, single-family dwellings. Notable buildings include the Laburnum House (1908), Richmond Memorial Hospital (1954–1957), Richmond Memorial Hospital Nursing School (1960–1961), "The Hermitage" (1911), Laburnum Court (1919), Veritas School.
NRHP reference number: 01001573
Linden Row is a set of seven historic rowhouses located in Richmond, Virginia. They were built in 1847 and 1853, and are three-story, Greek Revival style brick veneer townhouses on high basements and topped by a simple white cornice of wood. Each house has an identical Grecian Doric order entrance porch supported by two fluted Doric columns. A three-story porch runs the entire length of the back of the houses. Linden Row includes a house owned by noted author Mary Johnston, who died there in 1936.
NRHP reference number: 71001061
The Main Street Banking Historic District is a national historic district located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 19 contributing buildings located south of the Virginia State Capitol and west of the Shockoe Slip Historic District. It is the location of a number of buildings built for or occupied by banking institutions. The district includes representative examples of the Late Victorian and International Style architecture built between about 1865 and 1965. Notable buildings include the Virginia Employment Commission Building (1960), the 700 Building (1964), the Ross Building (1964), the Fidelity Building (1965). Located in the district is the separately listed First National Bank Building.
NRHP reference number: 05000527, 13000644
Moore's Auto Body and Paint Shop, formerly known as Standard Gas and Oil Supply Station, is a historic filling station located in Richmond, Virginia. The oldest section was originally built as a stable in 1875. The station was enlarged in 1926. It is a one-story, stuccoed brick building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The structure has an irregular plan, with the northern facade formed in a crescent shape and the rest of the building in rectangular forms. The central section features heavy paneled stuccoed pilasters connected by a corbeled brick table and a paneled parapet. The building was used as a filling station until 1936, after which it was occupied by a series of automobile repair businesses.
NRHP reference number: 93001123
Morson's Row, also known as James Morson's Row, is a set of three historic rowhouses located in Richmond, Virginia. They were built in 1853, and are three-story, three bay brick structures with flat roofs. They feature Italianate style heavy bracketed cornices, arched door enframements, and elaborately molded consoled lintel over the windows. The distinctive feature of the row is the off-center, two-bay bow on each house.
NRHP reference number: 69000354
Virginia State Library-Oliver Hill Building, also known as the State Finance Building, is a historic library and government office building located on Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1892–1894, expanded in 1908–1910, remodeled in 1929, and renovated and expanded in 2004. It is a three-story, Beaux Arts style building with a buff brick veneer and terra cotta detailing. It features an Ionic order portico echoing the Virginia State Capitol’s portico. It originally housed the Virginia State Library collections, the Virginia Supreme Court, and office of the Attorney General. From 1910 to 1964, the State Museum of Natural History was housed in a new wing. In 1939, the functions of the State Library and Supreme Court were moved to the new Virginia State Library building, now the Patrick Henry Building, and the building was rechristened the State Finance Building. On October 28, 2005, the building was officially renamed the Oliver Hill Building, after Oliver Hill.
Street address: 102 Governor Street (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 08000542
The Pace–King House, also known as the Charles Hill House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1860, and is a large two-story, three-bay, Italianate style brick dwelling. It has a shallow hipped roof with a richly detailed bracketed cornice and four exterior end chimneys. It features a one-story, cast-iron porch, composed of a wide center arch with narrow flanking arches, all supported on slender foliated columns. Also on the property are a contributing brick, two-story servants' house fronted by a two-level gallery and a brick structure which incorporates the original kitchen and stable outbuildings.
NRHP reference number: 76002230
Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital is a historic hospital complex located in Richmond, Virginia. Opened originally as the Pine Camp Home for Consumptives in 1910, over time the original structures were replaced with a two-story Central Building and a one-story, Bungalow-style Administration Building, both built in 1932. Both buildings are constructed of structural tile covered with plaster. Also on the property is a contributing one-story, stuccoed masonry laundry and garage building (1922). After 1957 the property was converted for use as a recreation center.
Street address: 4901 Old Brook Road (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 03000190
Randolph School is a historic school in Richmond, Virginia. The oldest part was constructed in 1896, with additions made in 1900, 1934, and 1952. It is a 2 1/2-story, brick school building in the Italianate style. It features a four-story entrance tower with a mansard roof, ornamental terra cotta string course, brick corbelling and window hoods. Some of the rooms retain their original tin ceilings.
Street address: 300 South Randolph Street (from Wikidata)
NRHP reference number: 84000050
The Byrd Park Court Historic District encompasses a small, well-preserved residential subdivision in western Richmond, Virginia. Located just east of William Byrd Park, nearly opposite the Swan Lake Drive entrance, stands Byrd Park Court, a loop road on which are set six duplexes and six single-family houses. A stone gate flanks the entrance, and the center of the loop has a grassy area with a water fountain. The houses were built in the 1920s, in a variety of period revival styles with Craftsman touches.
NRHP reference number: 15001043
The Carillon Neighborhood Historic District encompasses a residential area of western Richmond, Virginia, USA. It is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of downtown Richmond, and is roughly bounded on the north and west by the Powhite Expressway and the Downtown Expressway, on the south by the Kanawha Canal, and on the east by Byrd Park. Although this area has a residential history dating back to the 19th century (when it was mainly country estates), its present architecture is reflective of its development first as a streetcar suburb, and then as a post-World War II housing development area.
NRHP reference number: 15001045
The Wicker Apartments, later known as the Bellevue Apartments, are a historic apartment complex at 3905-4213 Chamberlain Avenue and 4210-4232 Old Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia. It is a well-preserved example of a garden apartment complex developed in the post-World War II years (1945–47) with funding support from the Federal Housing Administration. The complex includes sixteen two-story brick buildings with 144 housing units, set on spacious and handsomely landscaped property.
Virginia State Penitentiary was a prison in Richmond, Virginia. Towards the end of its life it was a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections.
The New Pump House, also known as the Byrd Park Pump House, is a historic pumping station that served the city of Richmond, Virginia from 1883-1924.
NRHP reference number: 02001366
Estes Express Lines is a privately owned American freight transportation provider based in Richmond, Virginia. Founded in 1931 by W. W. Estes, the company is still owned and operated by the Estes family. Robey W. Estes, Jr., became the company’s president in 1990, then chairman and CEO in 2001. He was succeeded by his son Webb Estes as COO and President in 2023.
website: https://www.estes-express.com/
Richmond Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing firm located in Richmond, Virginia.
Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc. until 2003) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes, and medical products in the treatment of illnesses caused by tobacco. It operates worldwide and is headquartered in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
website: http://www.altria.com
website: http://www.oag.state.va.us/
The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly/legislature of the Confederate States of America that existed from February 1861 to April/June 1865, during the American Civil War. Its actions were, for the most part, concerned with measures to establish a new national government for the Southern proto-state in the current Southern United States region, and to prosecute a war that had to be sustained throughout the existence of the Confederacy. At first, it met as a provisional congress both in the first capital city of Montgomery, Alabama, and the second in Richmond, Virginia. As was the case for the provisional Congress after it moved northeast to Richmond, the permanent Congress met in the existing Virginia State Capitol, a building which it also shared with the secessionist Virginia General Assembly (state legislature).
McGuireWoods LLP is a US-based international law firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Initially founded in 1834, the firm has grown into the largest law firm in the state of Virginia, and has 21 offices across the United States. Along with its Richmond headquarters, the firm's largest offices are located in Chicago, Illinois and Charlotte, North Carolina.
website: http://www.mcguirewoods.com/
Media General, Inc. was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired The Richmond Daily Times, which later became The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Joseph Bryan's son, John Stewart Bryan succeeded his father as owner and publisher of the Times-Dispatch, which merged with The Richmond News Leader in 1940 to form Richmond Newspapers, Inc.
The Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia, was the biggest ironworks in the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and a significant factor in the decision to make Richmond the Confederate capital.
NRHP reference number: 71001048; website: http://www.tredegar.org
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing. Located in Richmond, Virginia, the organization's headquarters are situated near the intersection of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64 in the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park.
website: https://unos.org
NRHP reference number: 83003301
NRHP reference number: 84003572; USGS GNIS ID: 1780535
USGS GNIS ID: 1780561
USGS GNIS ID: 1780813
USGS GNIS ID: 1479939
website: http://www.yesvirginia.org/
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website: https://naturalresources.virginia.gov/
website: https://osig.virginia.gov/
website: http://www.rbha.org/
website: http://www.dmas.virginia.gov/
Street address: 114 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.theatreivrichmond.org
website: https://www.va.gov/opa/iga/index.asp
website: https://www.dvs.virginia.gov/
Street address: 4730 N. Southside Plaza Street, Richmond, VA 23224 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 11747 Patterson Avenue, Richmond, VA 23238 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 1000 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23284 (from Wikidata)
website: https://cristoreyrichmond.org/
Street address: 2401 W. Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia, United States (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.trainingcenterevents.com/
Street address: 727 W Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 2729 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
website: https://thebroadberry.com/
Street address: 1331 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23230 (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.bowtiecinemas.com/criterion-cinemas-at-movieland
Street address: 714 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 810 Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23221 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 712 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 2820 W. Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
Street address: Richmond, Virginia, USA (from Wikidata)
Street address: 211 N. 3rd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 4028 MacArthur Avenue, Richmond, VA 23227 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 115 W. Brookland Park Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23222 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 2525 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 418 N. 25th Street, Richmond, VA 23223 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 4011 MacArthur Avenue, Richmond, VA 23227 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 512 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 814 West Grace Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 620 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 512 Louisiana Street, Richmond, VA 23231 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 1919 Hull Street, Richmond, VA 23224 (from Wikidata)
Street address: East Broad Street & North 2nd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 808 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 404 North 25th Street, Richmond, VA 23223 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 1316 Hull Street, Richmond, VA 23224 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 708 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 5955 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23225 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 1412 Hull Street, Richmond, VA 23224 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 711 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 116 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 5706 Grove Avenue, Richmond, VA 23226 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 4712 W. Forest Hill Avenue, Richmond, VA 23226 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 2908 Idlewood Avenue, Richmond (from Wikidata)
website: https://www.library.vcu.edu/
Street address: 2301 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23223 (from Wikidata)
website: https://bes.rvaschools.net/
Street address: 3000 E Marshall St, Richmond, Virginia 23223 (from Wikidata)
website: https://ces.rvaschools.net/
Street address: 300 E 15th St, Richmond, VA 23224 (from Wikidata)
website: https://blackwelles.rvaschools.net/
Street address: 410 Westhampton Way, University of Richmond, VA 23173 (from Wikidata)
website: http://business.richmond.edu/, https://robins.richmond.edu/
Street address: 1200 N. 25th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23223 (from Wikidata)
website: https://rvalibrary.org/about/locations/east-end/
website: https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/graveyard