{"nrhp_refnum":"05000916","name":"Shockoe Slip Historic District (Boundary Increase II)","other_names":["VDHR No. 127-0219"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"11-15 and 101 South 15th St., 1433 East Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.53560024500007,"lon":-77.43124439703422,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3.5-acre boundary increase to the Shockoe Slip Historic District in Richmond, Virginia, covering five brick buildings along South 15th Street and East Main Street, dating from the late 1850s to 1916 with a 1955 addition.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the area is significant at the local level under Criterion A for its continued role in the city's commerce and under Criterion C for representative light industrial and commercial architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also notes that 11 and 15 South 15th Street are thought to have the last surviving granite storefronts in the city.","narrative":"This boundary increase adds five surviving brick buildings to Richmond's Shockoe Slip Historic District, on South 15th Street and East Main Street. They include a five-story 1916 warehouse designed by Carneal and Johnston and later used by Philip Morris, a 1955 steel-framed tobacco shed sheathed in corrugated metal by Baskervill & Son, and an 1898 three-story building known as the Buggy Factory, where farm implements and vehicles were sold and repaired. Three smaller buildings once housed commission merchants and wholesale grocers. Two of them, at 11 and 15 South 15th Street, date from the late 1850s and are thought to have survived the 1865 Evacuation Fire. Their granite storefronts are believed to be the last of their kind in the city. The buildings were added because they match the scale, materials and commercial and industrial character of the existing district. Most have been converted to offices, retail and apartments.","period_of_significance":"1800-1933","architect_builder":"Carneal and Johnston; Baskervill & Son","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate; Modern Movement","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings have been or are being rehabilitated for offices, retail and residential use; the Philip Morris building and 14 and 15 South 15th Street are rehabilitated, and work was underway on the Buggy Factory.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.992323-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6829/41682945/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05000916.pdf"},"photo":null,"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/41682945","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/shockoe-slip-historic-district-boundary-increase-ii-05000916/"}