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Byrd Theatre
The Byrd Theatre is an outstanding example of the grand mo...
Byrd Park Pump House
The Byrd Park Pump House, also called the New Pump-House, ...
Broad Street Station
The only railroad station distinguished American architect...
Branch House
Well-known American architect John Russell Pope designed t...
Boulevard Historic District
Boulevard Historic District is a grand avenue that connect...
Shockoe Valley and Tobacco Row Historic District
Shockoe Valley and Tobacco Row Historic District lies betw...
Stearns and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildings
The Stearns Iron-Front and Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Buildin...
Second Presbyterian Church
Completed in 1848, Second Presbyterian Church was the firs...
Old First Baptist Church
Famed architect Thomas U. Walter of Philadelphia provided ...
Main Street Banking Historic District
Main Street Banking Historic District is the historic hear...
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Byrd Theatre
The Byrd Theatre is an outstanding example of the grand movie palaces constructed in Richmond and around the country during the early 20th century. When it opened on Christmas Eve in 1928, the Byrd Theatre was comparable to the famed ...
Byrd Park Pump House
The Byrd Park Pump House, also called the New Pump-House, is a wonderfully executed late 19th-century example of the Gothic Revival style, applied to a municipal industrial building whose purpose was to house the Richmond city waterworks. The building, which ...
Broad Street Station
The only railroad station distinguished American architect John Russell Pope ever designed, this Neoclassical masterpiece served the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac (RF&P) Railroad lines from its completion in 1919 until 1975. The former Broad Street Station now serves as the ...
Branch House
Well-known American architect John Russell Pope designed the Branch House in 1916 as a winter residence for John Kerr Branch, a wealthy financier from a distinguished Virginia family. Pope also designed Broad Street Station, now Richmond's Science Museum, as well ...
Boulevard Historic District
Boulevard Historic District is a grand avenue that connects one of Richmond’s largest parks, Byrd Park, on the south, to Broad Street, a major transportation corridor on the north. In the center of this historic corridor is the cultural campus ...
Shockoe Valley and Tobacco Row Historic District
Shockoe Valley and Tobacco Row Historic District lies between Shockoe Hill and Church Hill at the southern end of Shockoe Valley. The district is the site of the earliest settlement of Richmond and the first residential, commercial, and manufacturing development. ...
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 ...
Second Presbyterian Church
Completed in 1848, Second Presbyterian Church was the first Gothic style church built in a city known for its allegiance to classical architecture. Patterned after a design by Minard Lafever, author of the 1829 publication Young Builder’s General Instructor, the ...
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 ...
Main Street Banking Historic District
Main Street Banking Historic District is the historic heart of Richmond’s financial district. Laid out in 1780, the district was part of an expansion of Richmond in conjunction with its designation as Virginia’s capital. Originally known as “E” Street, Main ...
