{"nrhp_refnum":"73002221","name":"Taylor-Mayo House","other_names":["Mayo Memorial Church House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 W. Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54506213900004,"lon":-77.44497054199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stuccoed brick Greek Revival house at 110 W. Franklin Street in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1845 for William F. Taylor and renovated in the 1880s by Peter H. Mayo. It is also known as the Mayo Memorial Church House.","why_significant":"The nomination holds that the house is one of only two private Richmond residences known to have been built in the Greek Temple form, and the only one to survive. It also notes the elaborate 1880s interior remodeling by tobacco magnate Peter H. Mayo, with exotic woods and a carved Neo-Renaissance stairway.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Franklin and Jefferson Streets in Richmond, this two-story stuccoed brick house was built in 1845 for William F. Taylor after his father, Samuel Taylor, bought the land in 1841. Its five-bay facade is dominated by a two-story Ionic portico under a low hipped roof. Richmond had many Greek Revival buildings, but only two private residences are known to have taken the Greek Temple form, and this is the one that survives. Tobacco merchant Peter H. Mayo bought the house in 1883 and remodeled it from 1884, raising the original one-story wings to two stories and adding a long west addition while keeping the original facade. Inside, he installed mahogany, olive, walnut, oak and bird's-eye-maple woodwork, parquet floors and a carved quartered-oak stairway topped by a leaded skylight. Mayo's daughters later gave the house to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, which still uses it for church offices.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1845)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (Greek Temple form), with Neo-Renaissance interior stairway","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, on its original site, and used for church offices by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; the interior plan has been altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.369049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6828/41682892/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/73002221.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002221/39920add22-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002221/39920add22-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nambul","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor-Mayo_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nambul</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor-Mayo_House.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/41682892","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%E2%80%93Mayo_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16901369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/taylor-mayo-house-73002221/"}