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Wickham-Valentine House
The Wickham-Valentine House is an elegant neoclassical bui...
West Franklin Street Historic District
West Franklin Street Historic District is an outstanding c...
Virginia State Capitol
The Virginia State Capitol, which Thomas Jefferson designe...
Taylor-Mayo House
Built in 1845 by Samuel Taylor for his son William F. Tayl...
Stewart-Lee House
Originally part of a group of five houses built by tobacco...
Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildings
The Stearns Iron-Front and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildin...
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Philadelphia’s noted architect of the Greek Revival,...
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
The City of Richmond established Shockoe Hill Cemetery in ...
Old First Baptist Church
Famed architect Thomas U. Walter of Philadelphia provided ...
Old City Hall
Old City Hall is a masterpiece of monumental High Victoria...
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Wickham-Valentine House
The Wickham-Valentine House is an elegant neoclassical building constructed in 1812 by prominent Richmond attorney John Wickham and is currently operated as a historic house museum by the Valentine Richmond History Center. Designed by Alexander Parris in the Federal style ...
West Franklin Street Historic District
West Franklin Street Historic District is an outstanding collection of monumental buildings and grand residences from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The district provides a dramatic and contiguous streetscape between the Monroe Park Historic District to the east and Monument ...
Virginia State Capitol
The Virginia State Capitol, which Thomas Jefferson designed with Charles-Louis Clérisseau, was the first Roman Revival building in America and the first American public building in the form of a classic temple. The building was the site of significant events ...
Taylor-Mayo House
Built in 1845 by Samuel Taylor for his son William F. Taylor, the Taylor-Mayo House, now known as the Mayo Memorial Church House, is the only surviving private residence in Richmond in the form of a Greek temple. The building ...
Stewart-Lee House
Originally part of a group of five houses built by tobacco merchant Norman Stewart between 1844 and 1849, the Stewart-Lee House is the solitary domestic survivor of what once was one of Richmond’s finest residential blocks. The house ranks among ...
Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildings
The Stearns Iron-Front and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildings, known collectively as “the Iron Fronts”, are a series of cast iron-fronted commercial buildings. Construction began in 1866, a mere year after downtown Richmond burned to the ground near the end of the ...
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Philadelphia’s noted architect of the Greek Revival, Thomas S. Stewart, designed St. Paul’s Church. Stewart was also responsible for the monumental Egyptian Building, completed in the same year as the church, 1845. St. Paul’s is a noteworthy example of Greek ...
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
The City of Richmond established Shockoe Hill Cemetery in 1822 reflecting a developing nationwide trend at the time to have cities provide safe, sanitary places for burials in suburban settings. Shockoe Hill superseded the first public burial ground in Richmond ...
Old First Baptist Church
Famed architect Thomas U. Walter of Philadelphia provided the restrained but authoritative Greek Revival design for the Old First Baptist Church. Walter, best known as architect for the dome of the U.S. Capitol, designed some 10 buildings for Virginia. Old ...
Old City Hall
Old City Hall is a masterpiece of monumental High Victorian Gothic design. This grand edifice remains a testament to the ambition and pride in democracy of the people of Richmond. Completed in 1894, eight years after the groundbreaking ceremony, Old ...
