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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The Corner Lofts is seven interconnected buildings formerly known as the Wedge at Courtyard Lofts. The former commercial buildings were erected between 1866 and 1875, and are part of the Shockoe Slip Historic District. They were gutted and converted to apartments in 2006. Name: The Corner Lofts Location: 1321-1/2 East Main Street Year Completed: 1866-1875,
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Cokesbury Apartments, originally built as Methodist Publishing House in 1921, is part of the Grace Street Commercial Historic District. The street-level retail space is still used as a book store. A deep bracketed cornice is one of the building’s distinguishing features. Architectural historians and critics note that this building is a near-duplicate of the Quirk
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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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Morgan Fountain, centerpiece of Shockoe Slip Plaza and Shockoe Slip Historic District, was donated by Charles S. Morgan “In memory of one who loved animals.” The fountain’s lower basin was intended as a watering trough for horses. It was constructed at a time when horses still transported people and goods. Name: Morgan Fountain Location: Shockoe
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Miller & Rhoads was a preeminent Richmond department store for a century, 1885-1990. The four-story East Broad Street building was added in 1922, expanding the Grace Street building. The then-Italian palazzo style addition was remodeled in 1933-1935 to Art Deco. The landmark department store closed in 1990 and was vacant until 2010, when it was
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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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Altria Center for Research and Technology is the largest tenant in the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park, a 34-acre hub for life sciences research. Approximately 70 public and private institutes and labs occupy the park. Name: Altria Center for Research and Technology, Philip Morris Research Center Location: 601 East Jackson Street Year Completed: 2007 Architect: CUH2A
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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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