Church Hill North Historic District Explained

Church Hill North Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:September 18, 1996[1]
Designated Other1 Number:127-0820
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Designated Other2:Richmond City Historic District
Designated Other2 Name:Richmond City Historic District
Designated Other2 Link:Richmond,_Virginia#Historic_Districts
Location:Along Marshall, Clay Leigh and M. Sts., bounded by 21st and 30th Sts., Richmond, Virginia (original)
Roughly bounded by 25th St., T St., 32nd St. and M St., Richmond, Virginia (increase)
Built:1796
Architect:Sloan, Samuel
Snyder, Asa (original)
Herbert Levi Cain, T. Wiley Davis (increase)
Architecture:Early Republic, Late Victorian, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (original)
Greek Revival, Italianate, et al. (increase)
Added:September 5, 1997
August 16, 2000
Area: (original)
(increase)
Refnum:97000958 and 00000887

The Church Hill North Historic District is a historic district in Richmond, Virginia, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. An expansion of the district was listed in 2000. This added to the original

The original listing included 587 contributing buildings; 265 more were added in the expansion.The original included the 1854 Leigh Street Baptist Church by architects Samuel Sloan with cast iron stairs by Asa Snyder and the 1938 Art Deco style East End Theater by Henry Carl Messerschmidt (1891-1994).[2] Venable Street Baptist Church built by T. Wiley Davis in the 1880s was part of the added area. The added area also included the Venable Street Baptist Church built in 1891, designed by M. J. Dimmock, the Dean of Richmond Architecture and built by D. Wiley Davis and a hip-roofed Sunday school church addition to East End Baptist Church added by Herbert Levi Cain in 1919.

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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. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. News: M . John. February 25, 2011. Under the Radar on 25th Street. Church Hill People's News. Richmond, Virginia. January 22, 2018.