{"nrhp_refnum":"86002887","name":"Boulevard Historic District","other_names":["DHL File #127-398","See Also:Home for Confederate Women","Confed"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"10--300 S. Boulevard and 10--800 N. Boulevard","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.55389405850005,"lon":-77.47580898852016,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear historic district of about thirteen city blocks along North and South Boulevard in Richmond, Virginia, developed almost entirely between 1910 and 1935. It holds 145 contributing buildings, 64 contributing structures (mostly garages) and one historic object, an equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson.","why_significant":"The Boulevard is a cohesive early 20th-century streetscape of town houses, apartment buildings and churches in popular styles such as Colonial Revival, Spanish Eclectic and Tudor Revival. It also contains three monumental public buildings of exceptional local architectural significance: Battle Abbey, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the United Daughters of the Confederacy headquarters. It also grew from the former Robert E. Lee Camp No. 1 Confederate veterans' home property. Only five noncontributing buildings intrude, which shows its integrity.","narrative":"Boulevard Historic District is a tree-lined, thirteen-block corridor in Richmond, Virginia, running along North and South Boulevard on either side of Main Street. Laid out as Clover Street and renamed Boulevard by 1890, it served as a direct route from the Main Street trolley line to Reservoir Park, now Byrd Park. It stayed a minor road until the turn of the century, when nearby land was subdivided for speculative housing. Most building took place between 1910 and 1935, producing town houses, apartment buildings and churches in Colonial Revival, Spanish Eclectic and Tudor Revival styles. Three large public buildings stand on the former grounds of a Confederate veterans' home: Battle Abbey, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the United Daughters of the Confederacy headquarters. Tuscan Villas, built in 1928-29, is a major Mediterranean-influenced apartment complex. The district has 145 contributing buildings and only five noncontributing ones, and it keeps a cohesive appearance, with street trees, lamps and a grassy median.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Bissell and Sinkler; Eggers and Higgins; Peebles and Ferguson; Ballou and Justice; Baskervill and Son; Albert L. West; Henry E. Baskervill; Carl Ruehrmund; C. G. Morris; Davis Brothers","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Spanish Eclectic, Tudor Revival, Neo-classical, Classical Revival, Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, in excellent to fair condition. Some buildings now serve other uses, such as museum, medical, and condominium uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.297229-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/6831/41683117/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/86002887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002887/56207b5d75-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002887/56207b5d75-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Taber Andrew Bain from Richmond, VA, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boulevard_(521646836)_(2).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Taber Andrew Bain from Richmond, VA, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boulevard_(521646836)_(2).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/41683117","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe_Boulevard","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712053"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/boulevard-historic-district-86002887/"}