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Virginia Union University and Belgian Building
Virginia Union University is a historical black college on...
Town of Barton Heights Historic District
The Town of Barton Heights Historic District is a remarkab...
Laburnum Park Historic District
Laburnum Park Historic District is one of Richmond’s histo...
Hermitage Road Historic District
Hermitage Road Historic District is a four-block section o...
Ginter Park Historic District
Richmond businessman and philanthropist Lewis W. Ginter co...
Chestnut Hill--Plateau Historic District
Chestnut Hill and the adjoining subdivision The Plateau we...
Barton Heights Cemeteries
Barton Heights Cemeteries are six contiguous burial ground...
Tredegar Iron Works
Named for the famous iron works at Tredegar, Wales, Tredeg...
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...
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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 ...
Town of Barton Heights Historic District
The Town of Barton Heights Historic District is a remarkably intact turn-of-the-century residential neighborhood in Richmond. The district was the first of a number of private and speculative developments outlying the city’s northside. Developers touted these neighborhoods as a haven ...
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 ...
Hermitage Road Historic District
Hermitage Road Historic District is a four-block section of Hermitage Road that is northwest of Richmond’s central business district and just south of the Henrico County line. The district developed between the late 1800s and early 1900s, starting out as ...
Ginter Park Historic District
Richmond businessman and philanthropist Lewis W. Ginter conceived Ginter Park, a serene late 19th and early 20th-century neighborhood of stately homes. Born in 1842 in New York City, Ginter became a tobacconist, industrialist, and entrepreneur. His idea for Ginter Park ...
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 ...
Barton Heights Cemeteries
Barton Heights Cemeteries are six contiguous burial grounds that African American churches and fraternal organizations established beginning in 1815. The six cemeteries are Cedarwood (originally Phoenix Cemetery), Union Mechanics (formerly Union Burial Ground), Methodist, Ebenezer, Sons and Daughters of Ham, ...
Tredegar Iron Works
Named for the famous iron works at Tredegar, Wales, Tredegar Iron Works opened in 1837 and stood as Richmond's foremost business concern for more than a century. The city’s location next to a waterpower source, its proximity to working coalfields, ...
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 ...
