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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 / Kanawha Plaza

Kanawha Plaza is a park built on a deck spanning the Downtown Expressway (I-195) between South 7th Street and South 9th Street. It was conceived in 1972 at the behest of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. The bank was planning a new headquarters building overlooking the James River at the same time that Downtown

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Richmond / Riverfront Plaza

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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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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