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Virginia Union University and Belgian Building
Virginia Union University is a historical black college on...
Laburnum Park Historic District
Laburnum Park Historic District is one of Richmond’s histo...
Chestnut Hill--Plateau Historic District
Chestnut Hill and the adjoining subdivision The Plateau we...
Oregon Hill Historic District
Oregon Hill Historic District is a fine 19th and early 20t...
Hollywood Cemetery and James Monroe Tomb
Hollywood Cemetery is set amongst a series of wooded hills...
Belle Isle
Belle Isle is a rocky, mostly forested island in the middl...
Columbia City Historic District
Columbia City is one of hundreds of communities across the...
Boeing Building No. 105
Building No.105, better know as the "Red Barn," documents ...
Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant
The Seattle Electric Company's Georgetown Steam Plant exem...
Old Georgetown City Hall
Originally settled in 1850 as a small, fertile farming com...
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Virginia Union University and Belgian Building
Virginia Union University is a historical black college on a 65 acre campus in north Richmond. The name of the university derives from the “union” of a number of smaller African American colleges over the years. The historic core of ...
Laburnum Park Historic District
Laburnum Park Historic District is one of Richmond’s historic streetcar suburbs with a fine collection of middle and upper class residential architecture from the early part of the 20th century. The neighborhood is also the location of a number of ...
Chestnut Hill--Plateau Historic District
Chestnut Hill and the adjoining subdivision The Plateau were originally the site of Mont Comfort, a farm Richmonder Samuel DuVal owned in the 18th century. The extension of a street across the ravine known as Cannon’s Branch in the 1890s ...
Oregon Hill Historic District
Oregon Hill Historic District is a fine 19th and early 20th-century working class neighborhood with architecture and streetscapes that illustrate how industrial workers lived. Located near the Tredegar Iron Works, the area developed as a working class community in the ...
Hollywood Cemetery and James Monroe Tomb
Hollywood Cemetery is set amongst a series of wooded hills and dales overlooking the falls of the James River. The site of Hollywood was part of the estate of Belvidere, a country house built by William Byrd III in 1758 ...
Belle Isle
Belle Isle is a rocky, mostly forested island in the middle of the James River, which flows through the center of the City of Richmond. William Byrd I acquired the island in 1676, and it remained in the Byrd family ...
Columbia City Historic District
Columbia City is one of hundreds of communities across the country which blossomed with its connection to an electric streetcar. A trolley line was built through the village in 1890 and within three years enough industry and residences relocated to ...
Boeing Building No. 105
Building No.105, better know as the "Red Barn," documents the humble origins of what is today the world's largest airplane manufacturer. In 1910, 28-year-old William Boeing purchased this balloon frame building, built one year earlier, to house construction of the ...
Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant
The Seattle Electric Company's Georgetown Steam Plant exemplifies America's acceptance of, then reliance upon, electricity. After Thomas Edison introduced this new form of power in New York in 1882, electricity quickly moved from a simple curiosity to a "requirement" for ...
Old Georgetown City Hall
Originally settled in 1850 as a small, fertile farming community called Duwamish, the community of Georgetown provides insight to an interesting variation on the effects of early 20th-century social reform movements. Georgetown's saloon and brewery owners worried that the community's ...
