{"nrhp_refnum":"86001190","name":"Fan Area Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Fan Area Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W. Main St., S. Harrison St., Richmond Metropolitan Expressway, and S. Boulevard","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.54723078850006,"lon":-77.46540944719418,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A thirty-seven-block residential historic district extension in Richmond, Virginia, lying west of downtown and south of West Main Street. It extends the Fan Area Historic District with late 19th- and early 20th-century row houses, apartments, churches, and commercial and service buildings.","why_significant":"The extension shares the architectural character, historical development and physical integrity of the contiguous Fan Area Historic District. It contains 658 contributing buildings and 42 contributing structures, with rows of houses built by the same Richmond builders and architects who worked north of Main Street. Its streetscapes show successive styles from Italianate and Queen Anne through Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and Art Deco.","narrative":"This thirty-seven-block neighborhood in Richmond lies south of West Main Street and continues the Fan Area Historic District. It consists mainly of late 19th- and early 20th-century brick and frame row houses, along with semi-detached and detached town houses, apartment buildings, two churches, corner stores, service stations, a fire station and a former trolley barn complex. Growth followed a trolley line extended along West Main Street in the 1890s, and the street grid reflects an 1817 town plan by Jacquelin Harvie. Local builders and architects often built entire blocks of near-identical rows, and most of the area was developed by 1930. Colonial Revival is the most common style, with Italianate, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and one Art Deco apartment building also present. The district counts 658 contributing buildings and 42 contributing structures. It was recognized because it shares the character, development history and integrity of the neighboring Fan Area, even though expressway construction and later demolition have affected parts of West Cary Street.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Builders and architects named include Davis Brothers, Inc., E. F. Poindexter, C. W. Morris, S. B. Hazelwood, E. W. Merriman, I. T. Skinner, Peter White, Carl Ruehrmund, Frank Woodall, Charles H. Phillips, B. W. Poindexter, Smith and Woodall, and W. F. Torrence.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century vernacular, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman, and Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly residential, with some commercial, religious and transportation uses. The form checks both occupied and unoccupied status, and notes that recent rehabilitation has encouraged revitalization. Some modern intrusions and demolitions have occurred along West Cary Street.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.332817-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/6830/41683035/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86001190.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001190/4eb5a881c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001190/4eb5a881c4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nisansapsali at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FanDistrict-Richmond-VA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Nisansapsali at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FanDistrict-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/41683035","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5433597"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/fan-area-historic-district-boundary-increase-86001190/"}