{"nrhp_refnum":"69000355","name":"Putney Houses","other_names":["Samuel Putney House","Stephen Putney House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1010-1012 E. Marshall St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54093213500005,"lon":-77.43114186399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjoining Italianate townhouses at 1010 and 1012 E. Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1859 by Samuel Ayres, known as the Samuel Putney House and the Stephen Putney House.","why_significant":"The houses are noted for their ornamental cast ironwork, produced by the local Phoenix Iron Works. The two-story iron veranda on the Stephen Putney House is described as unique in Richmond and an outstanding example of its type. Both are fine examples of an ante-bellum style once common in the city, and their location behind the Valentine Museum helps maintain the domestic scale of the block.","narrative":"Two neighboring townhouses at 1010 and 1012 E. Marshall Street in Richmond were built in 1859 by Samuel Ayres. From 1862 until 1894 they were owned and lived in by Samuel Putney and his son Stephen, who were in the shoe manufacturing business. Both are three-story, three-bay stuccoed buildings with extensive rear ells. The Samuel Putney House has an entablature with panels and roundels, windows with semicircular lintels on pilasters, and a delicate one-story cast iron porch. The Stephen Putney House has a bracketed cornice, a richly carved door entablature, and surviving marble mantels and Victorian cornices inside. Its two-story ornamental iron veranda on the east side is considered unique in Richmond. The ironwork came from the local Phoenix Iron Works. The pair is valued as an example of an ante-bellum style once common in the city, and for helping preserve the domestic scale of the block behind the Valentine Museum.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1859)","architect_builder":"Samuel Ayres (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Richmond; condition listed as deteriorated at nomination. A 1972 letter mentions plans to demolish and re-erect the houses elsewhere, but the outcome is not stated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.527816-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/6831/41683191/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/69000355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000355/796cc33047-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000355/796cc33047-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Putney_Houses_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:Putney_Houses_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/41683191","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15615860"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/putney-houses-69000355/"}