{"nrhp_refnum":"10000585","name":"Crenshaw House","other_names":["Younger House","Clay House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"919 W Franklin St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.549765610000065,"lon":-77.45368100699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Italianate town house at 919 West Franklin Street in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1891 and altered in 1904 by the architectural firm Noland and Baskervill.","why_significant":"The house is individually significant for its role in Virginia's women's suffrage movement. In November 1909, two organizational meetings held here led to the formation of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. The league worked to win the vote for women and encouraged women to take up leadership in public life and progressive reform. The house retains its historic character despite minor interior alterations.","narrative":"Built in 1891 on West Franklin Street in Richmond, this tall, narrow, three-story brick town house was designed in the Victorian Italianate style. In 1904 the firm of Noland and Baskervill remodeled it with a more Beaux Arts character, adding a copper Doric entablature, a stone entry porch with paired Doric columns, a smoking room, and richly paneled interiors. Its early occupants were the Younger, Clay and Crenshaw families, and the Crenshaws lived there until 1941, after which it held apartments and later university uses. The house is individually notable for its link to women's history. In November 1909, women met here at the home of Anne Clay and S. Dabney Crenshaw to organize what became the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, an influential group that pressed for the vote and encouraged women into politics and reform. The house keeps its historic character despite modest interior changes, and it is now used as university offices.","period_of_significance":"1909","architect_builder":"Unknown (1904 alterations by Noland and Baskervill)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Used by Virginia Commonwealth University as offices for the School of Community and Public Affairs and the Center for Public Affairs; interior partitioned for academic use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.794373-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/6832/41683239/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/10000585.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000585/9025eb62c0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000585/9025eb62c0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crenshaw_House_Richmond_VA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Riley</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crenshaw_House_Richmond_VA.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/41683239","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenshaw_House_(Richmond,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16828383"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/crenshaw-house-10000585/"}