Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students. The landmark building is part of the West Franklin Street Historic District.
The building’s distinctive features are stone sills and flat-arch lintels on all windows, 10 oriel projections, an Ionic-columned portico, and a stuccoed top floor and coved cornice.
- Name: Chesterfield Apartments
- Location: 900 West Franklin Street
- Year Completed: 1903
- Architect: Muhlenburg Brothers, Noland & Baskervill
- Style: Georgian Revival
- Architecture Richmond: The Chesterfield
- SAH Archipedia: Chesterfield Apartments
- The Shockoe Examiner: Chesterfield
- National Register of Historic Places: West Franklin Street Historic District Registration Form
- Google Map
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
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Chesterfield Apartments, built in 1903 as luxury residences – and Richmond’s first high-rise apartment building – is now occupied mostly by VCU students.
All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2019 with Canon 5D Mark iv
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