Carver Industrial Historic District Explained

Carver Industrial Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 16, 1999[1]
Designated Other1 Number:127-5812
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:Marshall, Lombardy, Clay, and Harrison Sts., Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates:37.5542°N -77.4531°W
Architecture:Queen Anne, Romanesque, et al.
Added:May 26, 2000
Refnum:00000559

The Carver Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located at Carver, Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings located west of downtown Richmond. The industrial area developed between 1890 and 1930, along the tracks of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th-century and early 20th century architectural styles including Queen Anne and Romanesque.

Notable buildings include the Peter Stumpf Brewing Company or the Home Brewery (1891), Baughman Stationery Company (1903), Consumers' Ice Company building (1906), American Tobacco Company warehouse (1906), Eagle Paper Company building (1912), Export Leaf Tobacco Company factory (1915), Haines, Jones and Cadbury Company (1926), Saunders Oil Company building (c. 1930), and the Virginia Railroad and Power Company substation (1915).[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 19 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm#. 2013-09-21. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Carver Industrial Historic District . Kimberly M. Chen . January 1999 . Virginia Department of Historic Resources . and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map