The Almshouse
Built in 1860-61 as a place of refuge for the city’s poor, the Richmond Almshouse is an impressive monument to the reform movement that originated in the antebellum period. Designed […]
Nathaniel Bacon School
Exuding the confidence of a former era, this handsome school in the city of Richmond closed in the 1980s, the victim of changed demographics and priorities. With its high ceilings, […]
Mount Salem Baptist Meeting House
Although the Mount Salem Baptist congregation in Rappahannock County was organized in 1824, the present meetinghouse was not begun until March 1850. The Mount Salem Baptist Meeting House congregation, which […]
Farmville Historic District
Established in 1798, the central Virginia community of Farmville was laid out in an irregular grid pattern and grew by steady accretion. Its commercial, residential, and industrial sections preserve an […]
Robert Russa Moton High School
This innocent-looking school building built in 1939 at the corner of South Main Street and Griffin Boulevard in the Prince Edward County town of Farmville was an object of national […]
Buffalo Presbyterian Church
The very essence of a country church, Buffalo Presbyterian houses a congregation formed in 1739. The present building was erected sometime around 1804, after the original church burned in 1785. […]
Belmead
New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis designed the grand romantic Powhatan County mansion at Belmead for Philip St. George Cocke in 1845. Although its pinnacles and other decorative elements have […]
Truxtun Historic District
Truxtun was the country’s first wartime government housing project constructed exclusively for Blacks. Named for Thomas Truxtun, an early naval hero, the forty-three-acre neighborhood of some 250 houses was developed […]
Pittsylvania County Courthouse
This antebellum Pittsylvania County Courthouse stands as a landmark to the African American struggle for civil rights in the post Civil-War era. Judge J. D. Coles’s attempt in 1878 to […]
Petersburg National Battlefield
The Petersburg National Battlefield Park consists of a vast network of fortifications and entrenchments constructed by both Union and Confederate armies during the siege of the city of Petersburg from […]