Grace Street Commercial Historic District information
Historic district in Virginia, United States
United States historic place
Grace Street Commercial Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Richmond City Historic District
Hotel John Marshall, c. 1930s
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Location
Roughly bounded by Adams, Broad, 8th and Franklin Sts.; 626, 700 E. Broad St., 12-118 N. 8th St., 707-715 E. Franklin St., 2-18 and 13 W. Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia
Chicago, Classical Revival, Mission/spanish Revival, Colonial Revival, International Style
NRHP reference No.
98000739, 09000924 (Boundary Increase)[1]
VLR No.
127-0857
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
July 13, 1998, November 12, 2009 (Boundary Increase)
Designated VLR
December 2, 1997; September 17, 2009[2]
The Grace Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 93 contributing buildings located in downtown Richmond. The buildings reflect the core of the city's early 20th-century retail development and the remnants of a 19th-century residential neighborhood. The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th-century and early 20th-century architectural styles, including Classical Revival, Mission Revival, International Style, and Colonial Revival. Notable buildings include the Administration and Equipment Building for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (1929), Thalhimer's Department Store, Atlantic Life Building (1950-1959), Miller & Rhoads Department Store, Berry-Burk Building, former W. W. Foster Studios (1927), Bank of Virginia (1949), Investment Realty Company building (1930), W.T. Grant Store (1939), Hotel John Marshall (1927), Franklin Federal Savings and Loan building (1954), and the Tompkins House (1820). Located in the district and separately listed are the Loew's Theatre, Centenary United Methodist Church, Joseph P. Winston House, Central National Bank, and National Theater.[3][4]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, with a boundary increase in 2009.[1]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
^Kimberly M. Chen and Douglas Harnsberger (October 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grace Street Commercial Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos and Accompanying map Archived 2013-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
^Kimberly M. Chen and Melanie A. Moran (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grace Street Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
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