tagged with: architecture
June 15, 2010
1320 and 1322 North 31st Street
More small house love: these 2 attached 576-square-foot houses at 1320 and 1322 North 31st Street are collectively valued at $48,000 and appear to be candidates for future demolition.
June 6, 2010
The smallest house in Richmond?
At 315 square feet, this house at 2607 Nine Mile Road may be Richmond’s smallest house. There is another delightful little house just around the corner at 1420 North 27th Street that tops out at 842 square feet.
June 3, 2010
Bellevue 1912
Designed by the prolific Richmond architecture firm of Carneal and Johnston, Bellevue Elementary school opened for the 1913-1914 school year.
May 14, 2010
Agenda for the 5/25 CAR meeting
The agenda for the May 25 Commission of Architectural Review meeting (PDF) lists 6 projects in the area: 3416-18 E MARSHALL ST Add awning at front entrances; 3416-18 E MARSHALL ST Replace windows; 2603 E BROAD ST Modifications to rear porch; 706 N 27TH ST Exterior painting; 1805-09 E BROAD ST Construct new rear addition; 711 N 26TH ST Replace vinyl siding with wood or Hardiplank and add dormers on rear section.
April 17, 2010
Agenda for the 4/27 CAR meeting
The agenda for the April 27 Commission of Architectural Review meeting (PDF) lists 5 projects in the area : 715 MOSBY ST Install one rooftop and two pedestal lighted signs; 3302 E BROAD ST Replace front walk and steps and retaining wall; 2809 M ST Build new single-family house; 626-630 N 29TH ST Build 2 new single-family attached houses; 500 N 29TH ST Demolish shed and replace with new construction.
April 9, 2010
Who casts capitals in Richmond?
Nathalie is looking for some help finding capitals for her porch:
I’m trying to find out whether anyone in the Richmond area casts capitals. We’re rebuilding our front porch, for which all 11 capitals need to be replaced, and are having a hard time finding pre-made caps that are the right size.
April 1, 2010
Nolde wins landscaping award
The Nolde Bakery Condominium community on Broad Street was recently recognized by the ASLA for the “daring verticality and enthusiasm” of their new perimeter evergreen plantings.
March 31, 2010
The 10 most blighted houses in Church Hill
While there has been a tremendous amount of ongoing renewal, the greater Church Hill area still has some of the most blighted houses still standing in Richmond. From reader suggestions and addresses sent in directly, we present to you CHPN’s Most Blighted House in Church Hill 2010…
March 11, 2010
Agenda for the 3/23 CAR meeting
The agenda for the March 23 Commission of Architectural Review meeting (PDF) lists 5 projects in the area, including a conceptual review for a multi-family dwelling at 2400 East Franklin: 2215 E BROAD ST Install interpretive plaque; 200 N 22ND ST Replace existing collocated equipment; 317 N 36TH ST Enclose pipe at rear porch with box column and install stairs and railing; 2419 E GRACE ST Construct new rear porch; 2400 E FRANKLIN ST Construct multi-family dwelling.
March 9, 2010
Yarbrough house and 5 other houses open for Historic Garden Week
Virginia Living has a look at the history of the Yarbrough house, one of the homes open for next month’s Historic Garden Week:
The house was built by William Yarbrough, who, with Miles Turpin, owned Turpin and Yarbrough Tobacco Co., housed in the nearby Pohlig building. The partners married sisters and built identical houses next door to one another. “Nobody wanted to have the nicer house or the worse house,” says Waite, the director of the Museum of the Confederacy. Work was completed in the summer of 1861; the war had started in April. By the end of the 19th century, the basement had been converted to a doctor’s office and examination rooms, and the mosaic tile floor in that room today dates to that period. In the 1940s and ’50s, the main house and two-story servants’ quarters held 13 apartments. That was before S. Douglas Fleet bought the property in 1967 and began to restore it.
January 30, 2010
CAR Task Force meeting set for Thursday
There will be a public hearing of the CAR Task Force on Feb.4 at 6PM in City Council Chambers on the 2nd floor of City Hall.
January 13, 2010
Agenda for the 1/26 CAR meeting
The agenda for the January 26 Commission of Architectural Review meeting (PDF) includes 3 projects in the area: 404 N 27TH ST – Install hand rails to match existing balusters; 2512 E GRACE ST – Modify existing rear addition; 619-627 N 28TH ST – Revise earlier approval of construction of new duplexes.
January 7, 2010
Urban exploration on 25th Street
River City Riffraff has been publishing fantastic photos from the theater on 25th Street.