{"nrhp_refnum":"09000730","name":"Ninth Street Office Building","other_names":["Hotel Richmond"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"202 N. 9th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54272083400008,"lon":-77.43442544399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former hotel at 202 North Ninth Street in Richmond, Virginia, built ca. 1904 as the Hotel Richmond and enlarged in 1910-11, now used as a state government office building.","why_significant":"It is argued to be significant for social history as the last in a long line of hotels and taverns on its city block and as a center of Richmond politics under owner Adeline Atkinson, a pioneering businesswoman. It is also significant architecturally as the work of Harrison Albright and John Kevan Peebles, and for its surviving monumental marble palm court lobby.","narrative":"Rising eleven stories at 202 North Ninth Street in Richmond, this brick building began as the Hotel Richmond. Its first eight-story block dates to about 1904. A 1910-11 addition raised it by two floors and added a new wing to the north, creating a two-story marble lobby facing Ninth Street. The exterior combines rusticated brick, granite, limestone, terra cotta and a copper cornice. The lobby, known as the palm court, keeps a grand staircase, iron balustrades, paired Doric columns and stained-glass skylights bearing the hotel crest. The site had hosted taverns and hotels since 1797. Adeline Atkinson, a widow who secured financing from J.P. Morgan, built the hotel into a gathering place for state and local politicians. Harrison Albright designed the original hotel, and Norfolk architect John Kevan Peebles completed it. The state bought the building in 1966 and converted it to offices, adding suspended ceilings and partitions, though the lobby survives as its most important interior space.","period_of_significance":"1904-1959","architect_builder":"Harrison Albricht (1904 construction); John Kevan Peebles (1911 addition)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a state government office building since the state acquired it in 1966; the interior was converted from hotel rooms to offices, and the roof garden was removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.312969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/6831/41683137/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000730.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000730/24abc79571-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000730/24abc79571-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Smash the Iron Cage","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richmond_Hotel-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smash the Iron Cage</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richmond_Hotel-1.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/41683137","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137217724"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/ninth-street-office-building-09000730/"}