{"nrhp_refnum":"76002230","name":"Pace-King House","other_names":["The Charles Hill House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"205 N. 19th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.534398295000074,"lon":-77.42459255799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate brick mansion at 205 North Nineteenth Street in the Shockoe Valley neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, built in 1860 as the residence of Charles B. Hill, with a service court and outbuildings behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a rare surviving example of the grand Southern town mansions built just before the War Between the States. Its elaborate cast-iron porch is ranked among the finest in a city known for ironwork. It is also a key element in the cluster of old buildings around the Adam Craig House and was home to several prominent Richmond figures.","narrative":"Built in 1860 at 205 North Nineteenth Street, this two-story Italianate mansion rises in Shockoe Valley, Richmond's oldest neighborhood. Pressed brick walls, a deep bracketed cornice and a three-bay facade fronted by an ornate one-story cast-iron porch mark it as a house of ostentatious scale. Behind it lie a brick-paved service court, a servants' house and a building made from the old kitchen and stable, later enlarged for an ice-making business. Auctioneer and alderman Charles B. Hill built the house, and later owners included Philip K. White, tobacco businessman and city treasurer James B. Pace, and Jane King, who ran fuel and ice companies. It later served as tenements. The nomination values it as a rare survivor of the grand Southern town mansions mostly lost to commercial redevelopment, and for its cast-iron porch. Preservationists acquired it in 1975 and planned a restoration.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Acquired in 1975 by the William Byrd Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities after use as tenements; the last occupants were removed, the house stands empty, and an adaptive restoration is planned. Structurally basically sound.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:58.072977-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/6829/41682989/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002230.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002230/983f5237a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002230/983f5237a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pace-King_House_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:Pace-King_House_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/41682989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace%E2%80%93King_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16896307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/pace-king-house-76002230/"}