{"nrhp_refnum":"72001520","name":"Confederate Memorial Chapel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2900 Grove Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.55586934000007,"lon":-77.47554643599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-02-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small white frame Gothic Revival chapel at 2900 Grove Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, built and dedicated in 1887 on the grounds of the Confederate Soldiers Home. It is owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia.","why_significant":"The chapel was built in 1887 with contributions from Confederate veterans and dedicated to the Confederate dead. It is the surviving remnant of the Confederate Soldiers Home complex. It is also a small example of Gothic Revival design by architect Marion J. Dimmock, Sr.","narrative":"Confederate Memorial Chapel is a small white frame Gothic Revival building at 2900 Grove Avenue in Richmond. Cruciform in plan, it has a clipped gable roof, a belfry, a shingled porch with carpenter Gothic arches, and lancet windows along its sides. Inside are dark-stained pews, pine floors, exposed beaded ceiling sheathing and eight nineteenth-century stained glass windows dedicated to Confederate soldiers and battalions. The interdenominational chapel was dedicated in 1887 to the Confederate dead, paid for by contributions from veterans living at the Confederate Soldiers Home, which had grown out of a camp organized in 1883. Marion J. Dimmock, Sr. designed it and Joseph F. Wingfield built it. After the last veteran died in 1941, most of the home's buildings were destroyed and the chapel passed to the Commonwealth of Virginia. It fell into disrepair until citizens secured restoration in 1960 and 1961. St. Timothy's Anglican Church began holding services there in 1970.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1887)","architect_builder":"Marion J. Dimmock, Sr. (architect); Joseph F. Wingfield (builder)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site. Restored in 1960-1961 and taken over by St. Timothy's Anglican Church for services in 1970.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.18934-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6831/41683129/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/72001520.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001520/d48fded5d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001520/d48fded5d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ConfederateMemorialChapel_Richmond.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:ConfederateMemorialChapel_Richmond.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/41683129","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_Chapel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16827703"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/confederate-memorial-chapel-72001520/"}