{"nrhp_refnum":"11000549","name":"Kent Road Village","other_names":["VDHR File No. 127-6514"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"920-924 N. Hamilton St. & 905-935 Kent Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.56639889000007,"lon":-77.48435176399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Social History","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of eleven two-story brick Colonial Revival garden apartment buildings, built in 1942-1943 on a 3.4-acre wedge-shaped site at 920-924 N. Hamilton Street and 905-935 Kent Road in Richmond's near West End, Virginia. Two new townhouse buildings were added in 2010.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be a well-preserved example of a World War II-era garden apartment complex financed by the Federal Housing Administration, significant locally for architecture (Criterion C). It is also significant under Criterion A as one of Richmond's earliest FHA-financed multi-family projects. Its planning and construction were unusually well documented because of a neighborhood campaign to block it.","narrative":"Kent Road Village is a group of eleven two-story red brick apartment buildings in Richmond's near West End, built in 1942-1943 with Federal Housing Administration financing. Architect E. Tucker Carlton designed them in the Colonial Revival style, and the Richmond firm Muhleman & Kayhoe, Inc. built them. Three exterior treatments vary the theme, with unpainted or whitewashed brick, slate roofs, wood double-hung windows and eight-panel entry doors. Each building originally held eight one-bedroom apartments around a central stair. The 88 units opened in spring 1943 and eased a wartime housing shortage. Neighbors in the upper-middle-class area organized to stop construction, but the project went ahead, leaving a detailed record of its planning. It is considered a well-preserved garden apartment complex that reflects FHA principles of landscaped, light-filled housing for middle-class renters. A 2010 rehabilitation kept the historic exteriors and nearly all interior finishes, and added two noncontributing townhouse buildings.","period_of_significance":"1942-1943","architect_builder":"E. Tucker Carlton (architect); Muhleman & Kayhoe, Inc. (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 2010 and still in use as residential apartments; two new townhouse buildings were added and counted as noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.993926-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/6789/41678902/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/11000549.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000549/3be9721bcb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000549/3be9721bcb-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"Crazyale, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_road_village.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/41678902","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Road_Village","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16893262"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/kent-road-village-11000549/"}