{"nrhp_refnum":"07000400","name":"St. Catherine's School","other_names":["File No. 127-5886"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"6001 Grove Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.571754542000065,"lon":-77.52171814053878,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-05-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 15-acre private girls' school campus historic district at 6001 Grove Avenue in the Westhampton neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, built between 1922 and 1953 under a 1921 master plan by New York architect Hobart Upjohn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the campus is significant as Richmond's oldest girls' school, founded in 1890 by Virginia Randolph Ellett. Its unified Georgian Revival architecture follows Hobart Upjohn's 1921 master plan. Its landscape was shaped by Richmond landscape architect Charles Gillette from 1937 on.","narrative":"St. Catherine's School occupies a 15-acre campus in Richmond's Westhampton neighborhood, where it educates girls from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The school began in 1890 as the Virginia Randolph Ellett School for Girls and moved to this site in 1917. After joining the Episcopal Church Schools of the Diocese of Virginia in 1920, it commissioned New York architect Hobart Upjohn to prepare a long-term plan, completed in 1921. Upjohn's plan set the Georgian Revival character of the campus: red Flemish bond brick, slate roofs, symmetrical massing and parapeted end walls, arranged in a horseshoe around a tree-lined Green. Richmond landscape architect Charles Gillette added planting plans from 1937 and designed the brick and wrought iron entry gates in 1952. The district is recognized for its role in girls' education, for Ellett's influence as founder, and for its cohesive architecture, with a period of significance running from 1917 to 1953. Later buildings echo the original design.","period_of_significance":"1917-1953","architect_builder":"Hobart Upjohn; J. Binford Walford and O. Pendleton Wright; H. Coleman Baskervill; Charles H. Chamberlayne, Warren Hardwicke Associates; Alan McCullough; Glave Newman Anderson Architects. Landscape architects include Charles F. Gillette and Wilson-Moreth.","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a school; the historic and current function is education.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.843488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/6830/41683059/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07000400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000400/1c82951595-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000400/1c82951595-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jimrobb44","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacot-sepia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimrobb44</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacot-sepia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683059","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Catherine%27s_School_(Richmond,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7587440"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/st-catherines-school-07000400/"}