{"nrhp_refnum":"01000065","name":"Tuckahoe Apartments","other_names":["127-5820"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5621 Cary Street Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.56836809400005,"lon":-77.52362227399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-02-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story red brick Georgian Revival apartment building at 5621 Cary Street Road in Richmond's Westhampton neighborhood, built in 1928-1929 as a luxury suburban apartment-hotel and designed by architect W. Duncan Lee.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant at the local level under Criterion C for the quality of its architecture. It is the largest building Lee is known to have designed and reinterprets features of Virginia's Colonial plantations such as Westover and Mount Airy. It retains excellent integrity inside and out.","narrative":"Rising six stories above Cary Street Road in Richmond's Westhampton neighborhood, this red brick apartment building opened in 1929 as the city's first suburban apartment-hotel. Architect W. Duncan Lee designed it in the Georgian Revival style, drawing on Virginia's Colonial plantations. The brick and cast iron fence echoes Westover, and the circular entry court and projecting entry bay recall Mount Airy. A domed cupola crowns the five-part facade. Inside, arcaded galleries, two parlors with oak parquet floors, and a fireplace modeled on Westover's treatments remain. The original sixty-four apartments have been reduced by mergers to fifty-nine, and most original windows survive. It was the largest building Lee is known to have designed. It is significant at the local level for its architecture, and it continues to serve as residential apartments owned by their residents.","period_of_significance":"1929","architect_builder":"W. Duncan Lee, Architect","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as apartments, owned and operated by its residents; about 59 units remain and the building retains a high level of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.791527-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/6828/41682882/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/01000065.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000065/59142e05be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000065/59142e05be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheTuckahoeRichmond.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:TheTuckahoeRichmond.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682882","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckahoe_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902039"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/tuckahoe-apartments-01000065/"}