{"nrhp_refnum":"00000490","name":"Davis, Decatur O., House","other_names":["127-0177"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1001 E. Clay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54200813800003,"lon":-77.43140317199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Second Empire house at 1001 East Clay Street in the Court End district of downtown Richmond, Virginia, built in 1879 and designed by architect Albert Lawrence West for his niece and her husband, Decatur O. Davis.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it illustrates the work of Albert Lawrence West, a prominent Richmond architect who focused on Second Empire buildings late in his career. It also represents Court End's shift from residential to institutional use, and the surviving residential-scale 1000 block of East Clay Street. The unusual cast-iron rinceau fence adds to its importance.","narrative":"Built in 1879 at 1001 East Clay Street in Richmond's Court End district, this three-story brick house was designed by architect Albert Lawrence West for his niece Alice Tyree and her husband, Decatur Oswyn Davis, a wholesale grocer. It features a slate mansard roof, granite trim, a cast-iron porch and a rare rinceau cast-iron fence with twining trumpet-flower vines. The Davis family lived there until 1917, when it became a hospital; later uses included a nurses' dormitory and a juvenile court annex, and the interior was altered several times. The house was listed for its architecture, as an example of West's Second Empire work late in his career. It also survives as part of the only intact residential-scale block in Court End, an area largely redeveloped for institutional uses. The Valentine Museum acquired it in 1988 and planned to rehabilitate it as offices.","period_of_significance":"1879 - 1917","architect_builder":"Albert Lawrence West","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Second Empire","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use; purchased in 1988 by the Valentine Museum, with plans to rehabilitate it for museum offices.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.823975-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/6829/41682913/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/00000490.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000490/d6e588fcdc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000490/d6e588fcdc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decatur_O_Davis_House_Richmond_VA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Riley</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decatur_O_Davis_House_Richmond_VA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"71000982","name":"James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/james-river-and-kanawha-canal-historic-district-71000982/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682913","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_O._Davis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16954919"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/davis-decatur-o-house-00000490/"}