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 ground plan and the majority of the buildings were designed by Richmond architect Charles H. Read, Jr. Later buildings were designed by Charles K. Bryant and Baskervill and Lambert, the latter completing the quadrangle in 1921 with Schauffler Hall, a Late Gothic Revival building, portions of which were incorporated into a new library erected in 1997. The whole Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle forms a coherent expression of the dignity and style accorded academic campuses at the turn of the 20th century. Founded in 1812 at Hampden-Sydney College as a Presbyterian theological school, the seminary relocated to Richmond in 1896 on a twelve-acre site donated by Richmond tobacconist Maj. Lewis Ginter, within the Ginter Park neighborhood of north Richmond. The Union Seminary has since played a leading role in religious education in the South.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia