Virginia Department of Transportation Building, aka Virginia Department of Highways Building and State Highway Commission Building, was erected in 1939. The T-shaped structure is joined to its Annex with a skybridge over Old 14th Street. Carneal, Johnston & Wright designed the building in a style described alternately as “Stripped Classicism,” “WPA Modern,” or Art Deco. […]
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Williams House, aka Jones-Williams House, was built for William Henry Jones, a tobacco merchant, in 1891. Marion J. Dimmock designed the building in Richardsonian Romanesque style, using James River granite. Jones sold the house to A. D. Williams in 1899. Richmond Professional Institute acquired the property in 1952, and it is now part of the
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Riverside on the James is a mixed-use development on Johnson’s Island along the Haxall Canal. The complex includes an eight-story office tower atop a five-level garage and a 10-story residential tower. Richmond law firm Troutman Sanders is the anchor tenant in the office tower. Name: Riverside on the James Location: 1001 Haxall Point
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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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John Tyler Building, a state office building, takes up an entire trapezoidal block. The shape is so irregular that Architecture Richmond comments it is “a site without a single right angle.” The site is also on a steep incline, so the building might be viewed as seven or 11 stories, depending on which corner you’re
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Riverfront Plaza is a pair of red granite-faced office towers overlooking Kanawha Canal and James River, just east of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. The 20-story near-twins sit atop a parking garage. Name: Riverfront Plaza Location: 901 & 951 East Byrd Street Year Completed: 1990 Architect: HKS Inc. Style: Postmodern SAH Archipedia: Riverfront Plaza
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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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Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles headquarters, a massive block of white concrete and black glass, is next door to the Science Museum of Virginia – quite a contrast in styles. And, true to its function, VDMV is set amid acres of blacktop parking. Name: Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles Location: 2300 West Broad Street Year
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One James River Plaza was built in 1979 by Virginia Power & Electric Company. The utility changed its name to Dominion Resources in 1983 and Dominion Energy in 2017. Their International style headquarters was quite similar to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, a block south across Kanawha Plaza and built the same year. After
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Westrock-CoStar Building was erected in 2009 by paper/packaging firm MeadWestVaco as its new corporate headquarters. The company later changed its name to WestRock, and leased space in its HQ to CoStar, a real estate company. CoStar has since purchased the building, and announced plans to build a 26-story skyscraper next door. That structure would become
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