Farnham Church
Farnham Church in Richmond County has survived abandonment, wars, and fire. Dominating its tiny crossroads settlement, the church was built ca. 1737 to replace a mid-17th-century church. With a Latin […]
Virginia Union University
The history of Virginia Union University exemplifies the efforts to bring higher education to southern Blacks following the Civil War. Because literacy among formerly enslaved individuals was often limited to […]
Union Seminary (Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle)
Begun in 1896, the Union Theological Seminary complex in the northside of Richmond is a collection of dark-red brick High Victorian Gothic, Late Gothic Revival, and Queen Anne buildings. The […]
Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
The Rev. John Jasper, born a slave in Fluvanna County on July 4, 1812, organized the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church congregation in 1867 in a former Confederate stable on […]
Second Presbyterian Church
In its endeavor to build a church that would be “the most symmetrical and pleasing to an educated eye,” the congregation of Richmond’s Second Presbyterian authorized a committee to call […]
St. Sophia Home of The Little Sisters of The Poor
The former charitable hospital of the Little Sisters of the Poor is a massive and rare example for Richmond of late-Victorian institutional architecture. The St. Sophia Home of the Little […]
St. Andrew’s Church
The St. Andrew’s Church complex was created to serve Oregon Hill, a Richmond neighborhood populated by workers at the Tredegar Iron Works and other nearby factories. Grace Arents, a niece […]
St. John’s Church Historic District
Popularly known as Church Hill, the restored neighborhood surrounding the colonial St. John’s Episcopal Church that comprised the St. John’s Church Historic District contains an assemblage of 19th-century domestic architecture […]
Leigh Street Baptist Church
The Greek Revival style Leigh Street Baptist Church, one of the architectural highlights of Richmond’s venerable North Church Hill neighborhood, was designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan and was completed […]
Jackson Ward Historic District
Richmond at the turn of the 20th century had one of the nation’s most thriving Black business communities. The hub of this activity was Jackson Ward with its fraternal organizations, […]
