{"nrhp_refnum":"04000269","name":"Williams, Charlotte, Memorial Hospital","other_names":["Memorial Hospital","127-0395"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1201 E. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.53883035500007,"lon":-77.43124333199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Charlotte Williams Memorial Hospital is a three-story, H-plan brick and granite hospital building at 1201 E. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, built 1899-1903 to designs by architect Albert W. Fuller.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it reflects Richmond's demand for a first-class medical facility with current equipment and procedures (Criterion A). It is also an elegant example of neo-Palladian Revival architecture popular in the late 19th century (Criterion C). The building retains a high degree of integrity from its original construction, though most hospital equipment and fixtures have been removed.","narrative":"Charlotte Williams Memorial Hospital, at 1201 E. Broad Street in Richmond, is a three-story and basement hospital of fireproof brick and granite construction with an H-shaped plan. Banker John Langbourne Williams gave $160,000 to create it in memory of his daughter, who drowned in 1884. Memorial Hospital was incorporated in 1899, and Albert W. Fuller of Albany, New York, took over as architect by 1901, with Richmond contractor Newton E. Ancarrow building it. The hospital opened on July 27, 1903, at a cost of $193,800. Its facades show neo-Palladian Revival design, with a rusticated base and a two-story Corinthian order. Inside were open wards, private rooms, a horseshoe-shaped surgical amphitheater with five viewing tiers, and a basement dispensary. It passed to the Medical College of Virginia in 1913. The Virginia Department of Transportation acquired it in 1986 and rehabilitated it for offices, keeping the operating theater. It was listed for its role in Richmond medicine and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1899-1903","architect_builder":"Albert W. Fuller, architect; Newton E. Ancarrow, contractor","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival (neo-Palladian Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Acquired by the Virginia Department of Transportation in 1986 and rehabilitated for office use, completed in 1990; now in government office use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.301068-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/6832/41683233/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/04000269.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000269/d76bb5632a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000269/d76bb5632a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"VCU Libraries","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamsMemorialHospitalRichmondCropped.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">VCU Libraries</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamsMemorialHospitalRichmondCropped.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/41683233","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Williams_Memorial_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903462"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/williams-charlotte-memorial-hospital-04000269/"}