{"nrhp_refnum":"100001048","name":"Ginter Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["DHR No. 127-0201"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Parts of Brook Rd., Seminary, Chamberlayne, Montrose, Moss Side & Noble Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2017-06-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A turn-of-the-century residential historic district in Richmond's Northside, laid out as a planned suburb by Major Lewis Ginter from the 1890s. It covers about twenty-one city blocks of houses built from the early 1890s through the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district is a planned suburb with a grid of wide boulevards, half-acre lots and tree-lined streets set out in Ginter's original development plan. It holds a wide range of architectural styles, from Queen Anne cottages to Colonial Revival mansions, and includes civic and religious buildings tied to the community's early history. The text also describes it as the setting of the Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle by architect Charles H. Read, Jr.","narrative":"Ginter Park is a planned residential suburb on Richmond's Northside, laid out in the 1890s by Major Lewis Ginter. Its roughly twenty-one blocks follow a repeating grid of wide divided boulevards and large lots, with tree-lined streets and granite and limestone obelisks marking major intersections. Houses date from the early 1890s to the 1930s and show considerable variety: modest Queen Anne cottages built for Ginter's workmen, large Colonial Revival and Builder's Vernacular homes, Shingle Style, Tudor Revival, Spanish Colonial, Egyptian Revival and Mediterranean Revival examples. Notable buildings include Spring Grange, a farmhouse said to date from the 1780s, the Tudor Revival Lewis Ginter Community Center of 1908, and the Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle designed by Charles H. Read, Jr. Five churches also lie within the district. Chamberlayne Avenue has lost many historic buildings to later apartment and nursing home development, but most other streets keep their historic character. The district was recognized for its planning, its architectural range and its role in the area's suburban growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles H. Read, Jr. (Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle); Lewis Ginter Land and Improvement Company (developer)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival/Builder's Vernacular predominant; also Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Tudor Revival, American Foursquare, Bungalow, Spanish Colonial, Egyptian Revival, Mediterranean Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most streets are described as architecturally intact. Chamberlayne Avenue has lost many historic structures to demolition, replaced by post-1950 apartments and nursing homes. The district has 302 contributing and 50 noncontributing buildings, and 179 contributing and 25 noncontributing structures.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.545685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/6830/41683031/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86002688.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/ginter-park-historic-district-boundary-increase-100001048/"}