Ethyl Corporation headquarters, atop Gambles Hill, fools many Richmond visitors. It looks like a capitol, or at least a governor’s mansion, and it looks to be about a century older than it actually is. After all, how many office buildings are designed in Colonial Revival style, or have ancient cannon parked on the front lawn? […]
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Even Google Maps is confused about this building: Reynolds Tobacco and Reynolds Metals both built warehouses and factories alongside the Haxall Canal in the vicinity of Haxall Point. This building, though, is definitely R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Leaf Tobacco Warehouse, aka Italianate (after the architectural style), aka The Locks – part of the residential
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Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church was built in four major stages: The church proper was built in two stages under two architects, as funds became available; a matching parish house was later added; a modern parish hall completed the site. The North Laurel Street landmark faces Monroe Park and is adjacent to landmark Altria
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Hood Temple A.M.E. Zion Church (African Methodist Episcopal) is a 170-year-old landmark in the Jackson Ward Historic District of Downtown Richmond. Name: Hood Temple A.M.E. Zion Church Location: 16 West Clay Street Year Completed: 1850 Architect: Albert West Style: Gothic Revival National Register of Historic Places: Jackson Ward Facebook: Hood Temple AME Zion Church Google
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Thomas Jefferson Building, 1220 Bank Street, is the former Thomas Hunter Blanton Office Building, now used by Commonwealth of Virginia government. Name: Thomas Jefferson Building Location: 1220 Bank Street Year Completed: 1956 Style: Modernism Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2019 with Canon 5D Mark iv
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530 East Main Street, aka Eskimo Pie Building, Atlantic Life Insurance Company Building, and Chamber of Commerce Building, is scarred from cornice repairs that destroyed distinctive terra cotta ornamentation. The building is part of the Fifth and Main Historic District. Name: 530 East Main Street, aka Atlantic Life Insurance Company Building, Eskimo Building, Eskimo Pie
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Imperial Building, aka Richmond Free Press, is a neo-Classical building at 422 East Franklin Street. Name: Imperial Building, Richmond Free Press Location: 422 East Franklin Street Year Completed: 1923 Architect: Neff & Thompson Style: neo-Classical Society of Architectural Historians: Imperial Building Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2019 with
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Black members of the multiracial First Baptist Church congregation purchased the existing (1802) church after white members built their own church on 12th Street, a block away. The black congregation added “African” to the church name. When the black congregation built a new church in 1876, it was patterned after the 12th Street church. Neither
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The 300 block of West Marshall Street is part of the Jackson Ward Historic District. Pictured is the north side of the street. According to landmark documents, “All of the houses on the north side of the block save three are antebellum, Greek Revival structures built between 1848-1855.” The photo foreground shows: 300-304 (north side),
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Deco at CNB Apartments is adaptive re-use of Central National Bank, a landmarked Art Deco skyscraper that was Richmond’s tallest building 1930 – 1971. The building changed hands several times: Central Fidelity Bank and Wachovia Bank, then (2007) a developer that planned to convert the offices to a hotel. In 2013 the building was converted
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