Richmond, Virginia’s founder, William Byrd II, named the city after a spot in England where the River Thames view was similar to the view of the James River. English homage notwithstanding, 40 years later colonists moved the state capital to Richmond from Williamsburg, partly to better defend against the British. Then-governor Thomas Jefferson fled the capital, returning after the war to draft the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom – foundation of the First Amendment.
Not content to be a political architect, Jefferson went on to design (with French architect Charles-Louis Clérisseau) the Capitol building. The 1792 structure, a National Historic Landmark, still stands atop Shockoe Hill. The wings were added in 1904.
For a deep dive into historic architecture, visit Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources. Classic Commonwealth: Virginia Architecture from the Colonial Era to 1940 (pdf) is a comprehensive guide. The Virginia Cultural Resource Information System is an architectural database and detailed aerial map.
The photos in this section were taken during a visit in October, 2019.
- Wikipedia: Richmond, Virginia
- Official Website: richmondgov.com
- Tourism Website: visitrichmondva.com
- Tourism Website: Virginia.org
- Related: Atlas Obscura
- Related: ArchitectureRichmond.com
- Related: Virginia Department of Historic Resources
- Related: Interactive map of Richmond Historic Districts
- Google Map
- For Your Bookshelf: Richmond: A Historic Walking Tour (Images of America)
Richmond Photo Galleries
Richmond Buildings
The table below is a list of all Richmond buildings in my photo archive.
| Link | Number | Street | Name(s) | Year(s) | Architect(s) | Style(s) | Landmark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↗ | 1000 | Bank Street | Virginia State Capitol, Commonwealth of Virginia Capitol Building | 1788 | Thomas Jefferson, Charles-Louis Clerisseau | Palladian | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1220 | Bank Street | Thomas Jefferson Building, Thomas Hunter Blanton Office Building | 1956 | Modernism | ||
| ↗ | 823 | Cathedral Place | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart | 1905 | Joseph Hubert McGuire | Renaissance Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 310 | College Street | First African Baptists Church, Randolph Minor Hall | 1876 | Thomas U. Walker | Greek Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 219 | E Broad Street | Deco at CNB Apartments, Central National Bank | 1930 | John Eberson, Carneal & Johnston | Art Deco | NRHP |
| ↗ | 501 | E Broad Street | Miller & Rhoads | 1922, 1935, 2010 | Starrett & Van Vleck, Commonwealth Architects | Art Deco | NRHP |
| ↗ | 626 | E Broad Street | UR Downtown | 1954 | Edward F. Sinnott | International | NRHP |
| ↗ | 730 | E Broad Street | Theatre Row Building | 1921, 1993 | Carneal & Johnston (Colonial Theater) | neo-Classical, Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 900 | E Broad Street | City Hall | 1971, 2003 | Ballou Justice & Upton Architects | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 1000 | E Broad Street | VCU Children's Pavilion | 2016 | HKS Inc. | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 1001 | E Broad Street | Old City Hall | 1894 | Elijah E. Myers | High Victorian Gothic, Gothic Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1200 | E Broad Street | West Hospital, Medical College of Virginia | 1941 | Baskervill & Son | Art Deco | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1221 | E Broad Street | Virginia Department of Transportation | 1939 | Carneal, Johnston & Wright | Art Deco | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1224 | E Broad Street | Monumental Church | 1812 | Robert Mills | Greek Revival, neo-Classicism | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1401 | E Broad Street | Virginia Department of Transportation Annex | 1961 | Carneal & Johnston | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 701 | E Byrd Street | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | 1978 | Minoru Yamasaki | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 901 | E Byrd Street | Riverfront Plaza | 1990 | HKS Inc. | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 555 | E Canal Street | Delta Hotels by Marriott Richmond Downtown | 1986 | Rabun, Hatch, Portman, McWhorter, Hatch & Rauh | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 600 | E Canal Street | 600 Canal Place | 2019 | Pickard Chilton, Kendall Heaton Associates | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 800 | E Canal Street | Gateway Plaza | 2015 | Forum Studio | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 701 | E Cary Street | One James River Plaza, Dominion Resources Tower | 1978 | Koubek Architects | International | |
| ↗ | 901 | E Cary Street | One James Center | 1985 | Odell & Associates | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 1003 | E Cary Street | Memorial Clock at James Center | ||||
| ↗ | 1021 | E Cary Street | Two James Center | 1985 | Odell & Associates | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 1051 | E Cary Street | Three James Center | 1985 | Odell & Associates | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 1201 | E Clay Street | Tobacco Company Restaurant | ||||
| ↗ | 422 | E Franklin Street | Imperial Building, Richmond Free Press | 1923 | Neff & Thompson | neo-Classical | NRHP |
| ↗ | 700 | E Franklin Street | Edison Apartments | 1913 | Alfred C. Bossom | Renaissance Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 415 | E Grace Street | Cokesbury Apartments | 1921 | Carneal & Johnston | Italian Renaissance | NRHP |
| ↗ | 420 | E Grace Street | Julep's | 1923 | Linder & Philips | Georgian Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 525 | E Grace Street | Berry-Burk Building | 1928 | Baskervill & Lambert | Renaissance Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 600 | E Grace Street | Dominion Energy Center Carpenter Theater, CenterStage, Carpenter Theater, Richmond Loew's Theater | 1928 | John Eberson | Spanish Colonial Revival, Moorish | NRHP |
| ↗ | 815 | E Grace Street | St. Paul's Episcopal Church | 1845 | Thomas S. Stewart | Greek Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 601 | E Jackson Street | Altria Center for Research and Technology | 2007 | CUH2A Inc. | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 601 | E Leigh Street | Richmond Coliseum | 1971 | Vincent G. Kling & Associates | Modernism | |
| ↗ | 530 | E Main Street | Eskimo Pie Building, Eskimo Building, Atlantic Life Insurance Company Building, Chamber of Commerce Building | 1913 | Carneal & Johnston | Beaux-Arts, Classical Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 823 | E Main Street | First National Bank, First National Apartments | 1913 | Alfred Charles Bossom, Vlinton & Russell | Classical Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1001 | E Main Street | American Heritage Apartments | 1904, 1909, 1960, 2003 | Wyatt & Noting, Charles K. Bryant, Armstrong & Solomansky | Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1111 | E Main Street | Bank of America Center, First & Merchants Bank Building | 1974 | Welton Becket & Associates | International | |
| ↗ | 1300 | E Main Street | John Tyler Building | 1991 | Odell and Associates | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 1313 | E Main Street | Exchange Place Apartments | ||||
| ↗ | 1321 | E Main Street | The Corner Lofts | 1866-1875, 2006 | various | various | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1500 | E Main Street | Main Street Station | 1901 | Wilson Harris & Richards | French Renaissance, Renaissance Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1548 | E Main Street | Railroad Branch YMCA | 1907 | unknown | Beaux Arts | NRHP |
| ↗ | 530 | E Marshall Street | Blues Armory, Richmond Light Infantry Blues Armory | 1910 | Averill & Hall | NRHP | |
| ↗ | 1223 | E Marshall Street | Egyptian Building | 1845 | Thomas Stewart | Egyptian Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 109 | Governor Street | James Madison Building | 1964 | Hayes Seay Mattern & Mattern | International | |
| ↗ | 1001 | Haxall Point | Riverside on the James | 2005 | Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, Inc. | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | Kanawha Plaza | Kanawha Plaza | 1972 | Robert Zion | Modernism | ||
| ↗ | 5206 | Markel Road | Continental Building | Modernism | |||
| ↗ | 5310 | Markel Road | Enterprise Center, Markel Building | 1965 | Haig Jamgochian | Modernism | |
| ↗ | 101 | N 14th Street | James Monroe Building | 1981 | Ballou Justice & Upton Architects | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 101 | N 5th Street | Hotel John Marshall, The Residences at the John Marshall | 1929, 2011 | Marcellus E. Wright Sr. | Art Deco, Classical Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 202 | N 9th Street | Hotel Richmond, Ninth Street Office Building, Barbara Johns Building | 1904, 1911, 1966, 2017 | Harrison Albright, John Kevan Peebles | neo-Classicism | NRHP |
| ↗ | 6 | N Laurel Street | Altria Theater, Acca Temple Shrine, Mosque Theater, Landmark Theater, The Mosque | 1927 | Charles Custer Robinson, Charles M. Robinson, Marcellus E. Wright Sr. | Moorish Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 8 | N Laurel Street | Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church | 1888, 1895, 1929, 1983 | B. J. Black, J. Stewart Barney | French Gothic | NRHP |
| ↗ | 400 | Richmond Highway | American Tobacco Company | 1939 | Francisco and Jacobus | Colonial Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 1100 | Richmond Highway | Model Tobacco Factory, Model Tobacco Apartments | 1940, 2020 | Schmidt Garden and Erikson | Art Deco | NRHP |
| ↗ | 200 | S 10th Street | Williams Mullen Center | 2010 | HBA Architecture & Interior Design | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 321 | S 11th Street | The Locks, Italianate, Reynolds Leaf Tobacco Warehouse | 1896 | unknown | Italianate | NRHP |
| ↗ | 330 | S 4th Street | Ethyl Corporation | 1956 | Carneal & Johnston | Colonial Revival | |
| ↗ | 501 | S 5th Street | WestRock | 2009 | MSTSD Architects | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 601 | S Belvidere Street | Virginia Housing | Postmodern | |||
| ↗ | Shockoe Slip | Morgan Fountain | 1909 | unknown | Italian Renaissance | NRHP | |
| ↗ | 500 | Spring Street | Afton Chemical Corporation | 1993 | Postmodern | ||
| ↗ | 101 | W Broad Street | Renaissance, Masonic Temple | 1893 | Jackson C. Gott | Richardsonian Romanesque | NRHP |
| ↗ | 114 | W Broad Street | Sara Belle And Neil November Theatre | 1911 | C.K. Howell, Scarborough & Howell | Classical Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 601 | W Broad Street | Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Markel Center | 2018 | Steven Holl Architects, BCWH Architects | Postmodern | |
| ↗ | 814 | W Broad Street | VCU Arts Depot, Richmond & Chesapeake Bay Railway | 1907 | William C. Noland, Henry Baskervill | Italian Renaissance, Beaux Arts | NRHP |
| ↗ | 2300 | W Broad Street | Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles | 1979 | Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern | Brutalist | |
| ↗ | 2500 | W Broad Street | Science Museum of Virginia, Broad Street Station, Union Station of Richmond | 1919 | John Russell Pope | neo-Classical | NRHP |
| ↗ | 16 | W Clay Street | Hood Temple A.M.E. Zion Church | 1850 | Albert West | Gothic Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 612 | W Franklin Street | Prestwould Condominiums | 1928 | Alfred C. Bossom | neo-Gothic, Jacobean Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 800 | W Franklin Street | Williams House | 1891 | Marion J. Dimmock | Richardsonian Romanesque | NRHP |
| ↗ | 801 | W Franklin Street | Johnson Hall | 1915 | Alfred C. Bossom | neo-Gothic | |
| ↗ | 900 | W Franklin Street | Chesterfield Apartments | 1903 | Muhlenburg Brothers, Noland & Baskervill | Georgian Revival | NRHP |
| ↗ | 901 | W Franklin Street | Ginter House | 1892 | Harvey L. Page, William Winthrop Kent | Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne | NRHP |
| ↗ | 200 | W Marshall Street | Gallery 5, Steamer Co. No. 5 | 1883 | Wilfred Emory Cutshaw | Italianate | NRHP |
| ↗ | 201 | W Marshall Street | Richmond Dairy Apartments | 1913, 1990 | Carneal & Johnston | Tudor Revival | |
| ↗ | 300 | W Marshall Street | West Marshall Street, Jackson Ward | 1848 | unknown | Greek Revival | NRHP |