Highland Park Public School is a historic school building located in Richmond, Virginia. The structure was built in 1909 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson. The Mediterranean Revival building is a two-story brick and stucco structure topped by hipped roofs clad with terra cotta tiles. In its use of the Mediterranean Revival style, the building was a departure from the Georgian and Gothic styles commonly used in Virginia school buildings of the time. The building used as the community school for Highland Park, Virginia, until the community was annexed by the City of Richmond in 1914. It served thereafter as a neighborhood school in the Richmond public school system until it closed in the 1970s. The building is considered to be important as an example of the work of Charles M. Robinson, who served as Richmond School Board architect from 1909 to 1930. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The building was converted from 1990 to 1991 into a residential apartment complex for senior citizens and re-opened under the name Brookland Park Plaza.
Ednam House is a historic home located near Ednam, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was designed by Richmond architect D. Wiley Anderson in Colonial Revival style. It was built about 1905, and is a two-story, wood-frame structure sheathed in weatherboards and set on a low, brick foundation. The main block is covered by a steep deck-on-hip roof, with tall, brick, pilastered chimneys with corbeled caps projecting from the roof on each elevation. Attached to the main block are a series of rear ells covered by low-hipped roofs. The front facade features an original colossal two-story portico consisting of four unfluted Ionic order columns.
The Dickenson County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Clintwood, Dickenson County, Virginia. It was built in 1915, as an extension of the 1894 brick courthouse. It is a two-story, Colonial Revival building with a projecting central block and wings. It features a two-story portico with paired Ionic order columns, Palladian windows, and a slate-shingled hipped roof crowned by a domed clock tower. The 1894 brick courthouse was replaced in 1972.
Mansfield is a historic plantation house located near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was built in stages starting about 1750, and is a 1+1⁄2-story long and narrow frame dwelling with a hipped roof. It has a hipped roof rear ell connected to the main house by a hyphen. It features an octastyle Colonial Revival porch stretching the full length of the front facade.
Giles County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia. The central block was built in 1836, and is a two-story, rectangular, brick building in the Federal style. It was originally T-shaped, but flanking wings were added soon after its original construction. It has a steep, hipped roof with a large octagonal cupola at its apex. A two-story portico was added about 1900, as was a two-story hyphen and three-story rear addition.
Holly Hill is a historic plantation house near Aylett in King and Queen County, Virginia. It was built about 1820 and is a two-story, five-bay-by-two-bay Georgian-style brick dwelling. It has a hipped roof and four-bay rear ell.
Shadow Lawn is a historic home located at Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. The original section dates to about 1834, with the main Italianate style front section designed by Jacob W. Holt and built in 1869–1870. The house is two stories tall and three bays wide with a cross gable roof. It has a traditional central-passage, double-pile plan.
Dalton Theatre Building is a historic theatre building located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick Commercial Style building with a flat roof topped by a one-story square central tower. The theater was initially built for vaudeville, and had the largest stage of any theaters on the rail line from Richmond, Virginia to Tennessee. Following the development of talking films it was converted into a movie theater and showed films into the 1960s.
Richmond County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia. It was built between 1748 and 1750, and is a one-story Colonial-era brick building with a hipped roof. It measures approximately 52 feet by 41 feet. During a remodeling in 1877, the original arcade was bricked up and incorporated into the main building. Also on the property is a contemporary clerk's office. The buildings were built by planter Landon Carter (1710–1778).
Bladensfield was a historic home located near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia. It was built about 1790, and was a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling with a hipped roof and interior end chimneys. The interior featured Federal and Greek Revival details. In 1854, the Bladensfield Seminary was established and the house was enlarged by the addition of a two-bay school room. It was destroyed by fire in November 1996.
Aspen Lawn, also known as V.T. Drewey Farm and Rawles Tract, is a historic plantation house located near Drewryville, Southampton County, Virginia. It was built about 1798, and is a two-story, five-bay, double pile timber frame dwelling. It has a standing seam metal hipped roof, four exterior end chimneys, and sits on a brick foundation. The house has Greek Revival and Federal design elements. The front facade features an imposing, two-story, pedimented portico sheltering the main entrance. Also on the property are the contributing tobacco barn, and the ruins of a barn and smokehouse.
The Williams House, also known as the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company Office, is a historic home and office located at Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. It was built in 1890, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, frame Georgian Revival style dwelling. It has a hipped roof with pedimented dormers and features a one-story, hip-roofed front porch supported by six slender Tuscan order columns. It originally served as the office for the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company, developer of Richlands. The building was sold in 1901 to Dr. William R. Williams, who used it as a residence. In 1984, it became the location of the town's branch of the Tazewell County Public Library.
Oak Lawn is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. The brick dwelling was built in 1822, and consists of a two-story, four-bay, main block flanked by one-story, two-bay wings. The central section has a front gable roof and one-story porch with a flat roof supported by four Tuscan order columns and topped by a second story balcony. Exterior chimneys arise between the main block and each of the wings. Also on the property are a contributing kitchen (1822) and two cemeteries. It was built by James Dinsmore, a Scots-Irish builder who worked for Thomas Jefferson.
The Elms, also known as the P. D. Camp House, is a historic home located at Franklin, Virginia. It was built in 1898, as a 2+1⁄2-story, stuccoed brick eclectic dwelling with features of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. It has a rear brick ell. It consists of a hipped roof central block flanked by a pedimented gable end and a three-story turret with a conical roof. The roof is topped with original decorative iron cresting and the house has a one-story porch. The house was built by Paul D. Camp, founder of the Camp Manufacturing Company, and later the Union Camp Corporation.
William Beers House, also known as the Beers House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1839, and is a three-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling crowned by an Italianate bracketed cornice and shallow hipped roof. It features an entrance with sidelights and pilasters framed by a porch containing coupled Greek Doric order columns. The house was enlarged to a full three stories in 1860. In 1965 the house was acquired by the Medical College of Virginia.
Stewart–Lee House, also known as the Norman Stewart House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1844, and is a three-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style brick townhouse. Its low hipped roof is pierced by four interior end chimneys and surrounded by a simple molded cornice with a plain frieze. In 1864, Robert E. Lee's wife and daughter occupied the house after the confiscation of "Arlington." On April 15, 1865, General Lee retired to the home following the surrender at Appomattox. He resided there only until June 1865, due to the "result of constant callers." In 1893, the building was given to the Virginia Historical Society "for the use and occupation of the Virginia Historical Society as a library and assembly rooms"; they occupied it until 1959. The house was conveyed to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society in 1961, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The Taylor–Mayo House, also known as the Mayo Memorial Church House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1845, and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style dwelling topped by a hipped roof. The front facade features a three-bay two-story Ionic order portico. The house was elaborately renovated during the 1880s.
John Rolfe Apartments is a historic apartment building located in Richmond, Virginia. The building was built in 1940, and is a two and three-story, ten-unit, International style brick building. The rectangular building has concrete copings at the edges of the staggered flat roofs. The building's sloped setting is park-like with a heavy buffer of trees to the south and an open lawn and trees along the north property line. The building is considered a rare and early example of International Style residential architecture in the city of Richmond and the region.
Buena Vista is a historic plantation house located in Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, brick Greek Revival style dwelling with a shallow hipped roof and two-story, three-bay wing. The front facade features a massive two-story diastyle Greek Doric order portico. Buena Vista was built for George Plater Tayloe and his wife, Mary (Langhorne) Tayloe. George was the son of John Tayloe III and Anne Ogle Tayloe of the noted plantation Mount Airy in Richmond County and who built The Octagon House in Washington D.C. The property was acquired by the City of Roanoke in 1937, and was used as a city park and recreation center.
Shirley Hall, also known as Devereaux House, is a historic home located at Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was built in 1940, and is a two-story, five-bay, Georgian Revival style brick dwelling. The main block is covered by a hipped roof with balustrade. A gambrel roofed service wing connects the main block to a hipped roofed garage. The interior features an entrance hall with an original Virginia staircase, removed from the Hunter House in Princess Anne County. The house is set in a park like setting among mature hardwood trees and American hollies.
