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Richmond / UR Downtown

UR Downtown occupies the former Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Building on the NW corner of East Broad Street and North 7th Street. The International style building was added to the Grace Street Commercial Historic District in 2009. It’s a modest, but attractive limestone and granite building just across North 7th Street from the landmark […]

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Richmond / VCU Arts Depot

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

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Richmond / Julep’s

Julep’s entrance canopy caught my eye on East Grace Street. It turns out that the wrought iron device was originally on the building next door (see landmark nomination, page 9). Had I backed up a bit, I might have noticed (and photographed!) the entire three-story Georgian Revival building. The building was originally a women’s clothing

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Richmond / Ginter House

Ginter House was built in 1892 as the residence of Lewis Ginter, a transplanted northern entrepreneur who made Richmond his home after the Civil War. Harvey L. Page and William Winthrop Kent designed the mansion with elements of Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne styles. Ginter’s niece, Grace Arents, inherited the property in 1897. From 1924

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Richmond / Edison Apartments

Edison Apartments was built in 1913 as Virginia Railway and Power Company Office Building. It’s also been known as Virginia Electric & Power Building, VEPCO Building, and Railway and Power Building. The high-rise was converted to residential use in 2013/2014 as the 700 Centre Building and combined with the adjacent modern low-rise structure. Soon after,

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