The Carver Industrial Historic District, a six-and-a-half-block industrial area located to the northwest of the city of Richmond’s central business district and within the Carver residential area, illustrates broad patterns of the city’s industrial development between 1890 and 1930. Buildings in the district represent a wide range of manufacturing interests—cigarettes, paper products, printing and engraving, plumbing supplies, beer, ice, mineral waters, and clothing. No longer dependent on the James River for power or transportation, these industries thrived away from the waterfront in proximity to the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. The district contains 13 skillfully crafted, finely detailed, brick industrial buildings representing a variety of architectural styles, including the Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Romanesque, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance, and Art Deco. Despite its utilitarian nature, the Carver Industrial Historic District exhibits some of Richmond’s most unusual and finest ornamental brickwork.