{"nrhp_refnum":"86002688","name":"Ginter Park Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Union Seminary"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by North Ave., Moss Side and Hawthorne and Chamberlayne Aves., Brookland Park Blvd., and Brook Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.57968686450005,"lon":-77.4461873525185,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A turn-of-the-century residential historic district on Richmond's northside, laid out in a grid of about twenty-one city blocks and developed from the early 1890s by Major Lewis Ginter. It holds 302 contributing buildings and 179 contributing structures.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a planned suburb with wide boulevards, half-acre lots and tree-lined streets, set out under Lewis Ginter's development plan. It contains a wide range of architectural styles from the 1890s to the 1930s, from Queen Anne cottages to Colonial Revival mansions. Civic, religious and educational buildings, including Union Theological Seminary, anchor the community.","narrative":"Ginter Park is a planned residential suburb on Richmond's northside, begun in the 1890s by Major Lewis Ginter. Its roughly twenty-one blocks follow a repeating grid with wide divided boulevards, tree-lined sidewalks and large lots about 100 by 250 feet. The district contains 302 contributing buildings, built from the early 1890s through the 1930s, in a wide mix of styles. Queen Anne cottages, Colonial Revival mansions, American Foursquares, Bungalows, Tudor Revival and Shingle Style houses stand side by side, and unusual examples include an Egyptian Revival house and a Spanish Colonial house of step-poured concrete. Community landmarks include the Lewis Ginter Community Center of 1908, financed by Ginter's niece Grace Arents, the 1915 Ginter Park Elementary School, several churches and the Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle designed by Charles H. Read, Jr. The old farmhouse Spring Grange recalls the rural land that preceded development. Chamberlayne Avenue has lost many historic buildings, but the other streets remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles H. Read, Jr. (Union Theological Seminary Quadrangle); Lewis Ginter Land and Improvement Company (developer)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival/Builder's Vernacular predominant; also Queen Anne, American Foursquare, Bungalow, Spanish Colonial, Tudor Revival, Shingle Style, Egyptian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly occupied private residences; Chamberlayne Avenue has lost many historic structures to demolition and post-1950 apartment and nursing home development, while other streets remain largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.232675-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/6830/41683031/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86002688.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002688/8f117110ec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002688/8f117110ec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ginter_Park.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</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:Ginter_Park.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683031","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginter_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5563291"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/ginter-park-historic-district-86002688/"}