This curved arcade comfortably maintains a presence among the larger-scale buildings of Richmond’s West Broad Street. The Moore’s Auto Body and Paint Shop serves as a tangible demonstration of how visual dignity can be imparted to the most utilitarian buildings through the competent use of the architectural vocabulary of classicism. The Mediterranean-style work is the façade of an 1875 brick stable. The design was commissioned by J. Luther Moore from the local firm of Lee, Smith, and VanderVoort. Moore purchased the stable in 1926. Acknowledging West Broad Street’s fashionable character, the architects ingeniously gave the block an elegant corner. The building was used as an automotive service station until 1936. Since then it has offered automobile repairs by various successive firms, maintaining a century-old tradition of servicing transportation vehicles here.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
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