{"nrhp_refnum":"72001522","name":"Haxall, Bolling, House","other_names":["Woman's Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211 E. Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54243776200008,"lon":-77.44115005899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Italian Villa style house at 211 East Franklin Street in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, built in 1858 for Bolling Haxall and now occupied by the Woman's Club.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the few remaining Italian Villa style buildings in Richmond and one of the city's most handsomely embellished ante-bellum mansions, notable for its ironwork. Its pure style shows the change in Richmond building between the 1840s and 1850s. It also credits the Woman's Club with preserving the house when the Italian style was generally unappreciated.","narrative":"Built in 1858 for Bolling Haxall, a Richmond mill partner and businessman, this three-story house at 211 East Franklin Street is an Italian Villa adapted to the city. Its sandstone-colored stucco is scored to imitate ashlar, and the front has a raised arched portico, cast-iron hood moulds with coats of arms, a bracketed cornice and a square cupola. The contractors were John and George Gibson. Dr. Francis T. Willis bought the house in 1869 and added a walnut stairway and frescoed walls. The Woman's Club acquired it in 1900, rented upper floors as apartments to pay its mortgage, and added an auditorium in 1916, enlarged in 1924. Restoration in the 1960s returned the exterior colour and the octagonal library's painted decoration. The nomination notes the house as one of the few Italian Villa examples left in Richmond, with especially notable ironwork, and credits the club with preserving it.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1858)","architect_builder":"Contractors John and George Gibson; ironwork believed cast by George Lownes","architectural_style":"Italian Villa","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, in excellent condition and unaltered per the form; used as a club by the Woman's Club, with an auditorium added in 1916 and enlarged in 1924.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.695415-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/6831/41683161/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/72001522.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001522/9e5f896df2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001522/9e5f896df2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolling-Haxall_House_1.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:Bolling-Haxall_House_1.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/41683161","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolling_Haxall_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16841742"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/haxall-bolling-house-72001522/"}