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Woodward House

The Woodward House dates to the early days of Richmond and is the last surviving building from the once-bustling James River port of Rocketts Landing. A portion of the house possibly predates the city’s incorporation in 1782. John Woodward, Captain ...

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Oakwood-Chimborazo Historic District

Oakwood-Chimborazo Historic District encompasses three of the city's east end neighborhoods–Chimborazo, Oakwood, and Glenwood Park. The district is noteworthy for its associations with the Civil War and as an early speculative residential development that followed the introduction of a local ...

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Leigh Street Baptist Church

Well-known Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan designed the Leigh Street Baptist Church. Dedicated in 1857, the handsome Greek Revival style building is a fine example of its style. The church is also historically significant as an active part of the community ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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