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West Franklin Street Historic District
West Franklin Street Historic District is an outstanding c...
Virginia Washington Monument
The Virginia Washington Monument became the first of Richm...
Virginia State Capitol
The Virginia State Capitol, which Thomas Jefferson designe...
Virginia Governor’s Mansion
The Virginia Governor’s Mansion, formally referred to as t...
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. Peter's Church
Dating from 1834, St. Peter’s Church is considered o...
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 ...
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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 Washington Monument
The Virginia Washington Monument became the first of Richmond’s many outdoor monuments and the second equestrian statue of George Washington in the United States. The monument influenced others across the nation to erect representational memorial statues. Interest in establishing an ...
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 ...
Virginia Governor’s Mansion
The Virginia Governor’s Mansion, formally referred to as the Virginia Executive Mansion, is the oldest governor’s mansion in the United States built for that purpose. Its residents have had an important impact on the history of the nation as well ...
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. Peter's Church
Dating from 1834, St. Peter’s Church is considered one of the gems of 19th century ecclesiastical architecture in Richmond. The oldest Roman Catholic Church in the city, St. Peter’s served as a cathedral until the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart ...
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 ...
