VCU Arts Depot was built in 1907 as Richmond & Chesapeake Bay Railway depot, a dozen years before the grandiose Broad Street Station (Union Station) was built a mile west. Trains passed through the station’s second floor, in the rear. Train service ended in the 1970s.
Today, the building is occupied by Virginia Commonwealth University’s “The Depot,” a VCU Arts facility.
- Name: VCU Arts Depot, aka Richmond & Chesapeake Bay Railway
- Location: 814-816 West Broad Street
- Year Completed: 1907
- Architect: William C. Noland, Henry Baskervill
- Style: Italian Renaissance, Beaux Arts
- National Register of Historic Places: Registration Form
- Google Map
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VCU Arts Depot, aka Richmond & Chesapeake Bay Railway
All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2019 with Canon 5D Mark iv
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