{"nrhp_refnum":"08000075","name":"Fairmont Historic District","other_names":["Dhr# 127-0814"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 24th, Y, 20th, T, R, Q & P Sts., Fairfield & Carrington Aves., & Mechanicsville Tpk.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54296189950003,"lon":-77.41305953694706,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-02-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Richmond, Virginia, covering a roughly ten-by-seven-block level hilltop neighborhood of frame town houses and bungalows built mainly between the 1890s and 1920s.","why_significant":"The district is significant mainly for its architecture: long rows of repeated Italianate and Queen Anne town house designs, and later bungalow rows, form a unified urban fabric with strong street walls. It reflects two waves of development in the 1890s and 1915-1925. Many original wooden ornamental details survive, and the form of the whole outweighs the distinction of individual houses.","narrative":"Fairmount is a residential neighborhood on a nearly level hilltop in Richmond, Virginia, spanning about ten blocks by seven. More than half of its parcels hold frame houses built between 1890 and about 1900, and most of the rest date from 1915 to 1925. The typical house is a two-story, three-bay frame town house with a shed roof, set only a few feet from its neighbors, with either a false mansard roof in Queen Anne style or an Italianate bracketed cornice. Because identical or nearly identical designs were built in groups, whole blocks read as continuous street walls. Later blocks hold rows of Craftsman and Classical Revival bungalows. Four churches anchor Fairmount Avenue, and Fairmount School stands at the center of the district. The district includes 542 contributing and 172 non-contributing buildings. Its significance lies chiefly in architecture: the repeated forms, surviving wooden ornament, and consistent urban character, rather than in any single high-style building.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Fairmount Baptist Church (now Mt. Tabor Baptist) designed by Herbert L. Cain, built by Wise Contracting Company, 1945-46; builders of most houses unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate; Queen Anne; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Residential neighborhood still largely in domestic use, with churches, a school, a mortuary and a specialty store; one surveyed house has boarded-up windows.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.96239-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/6830/41683007/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000075.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000075/d10a88406d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000075/d10a88406d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"The original uploader was Jmurden at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1100_Block_of_North_23rd_Street,_Richmond,_Virginia.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Jmurden at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1100_Block_of_North_23rd_Street,_Richmond,_Virginia.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683007","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount,_Richmond,_Virginia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5430621"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/fairmont-historic-district-08000075/"}