Riverside Apartments

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Riverside Apartments
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Location4500-4600 Washington Ave., Newport News, Virginia
Coordinates 36°59′28″N76°26′20″W / 36.99111°N 76.43889°W / 36.99111; -76.43889
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1918 (1918)
Built byJames Stewart & Company
ArchitectJoannes, Francis Y.
NRHP reference No. 83003294 [1]
VLR No.121-0039
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJuly 28, 1983
Designated VLRJanuary 18, 1983 [2]

Riverside Apartments, also known as Shipyard Apartments, is a historic apartment complex located at Newport News, Virginia. It was built in 1918, and consists of two, four-story, U-shaped brick apartment buildings decorated with simple bands of sandstone. The buildings features some classically derived decoration around the portals and a few accents of the same type on the parapets. They were built for the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to alleviate the housing shortage created by an influx of workers into the Newport News Shipyards during World War I. Two of the four original buildings were destroyed, one in 1975 and the other in 1979. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. William Kuthy and W. L. Whitwell (October 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Riverside Apartments" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo