{"nrhp_refnum":"90002097","name":"St. John's Church Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["DHR File No. 127-192","See Also:St. John's Church Historic Dis"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 21st, E. Marshall, 22nd and E. Franklin Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.53213454950006,"lon":-77.4182454878454,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-01-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the St. John's Church Historic District (Church Hill) in Richmond, Virginia, adding the 2100 blocks of East Broad and East Grace streets and documenting early twentieth-century buildings. The district holds mostly residential buildings, plus commercial, industrial and institutional ones, from the early 1800s to the 1920s.","why_significant":"The amendment adds twenty buildings dating from 1855 to 1895, which fit the district's original significance as Richmond's largest concentration of antebellum residential architecture. It also documents the 140 buildings built between 1900 and 1920, so the period of significance can extend into the early twentieth century. These include schools, a bank, and industrial buildings that show the area's dense development.","narrative":"Church Hill in Richmond holds the city's largest concentration of antebellum houses, along with later residential, commercial and industrial buildings. This amendment extends the district to include the 2100 blocks of East Broad and East Grace streets, adding twenty buildings from 1855 to 1895. Among them are the Greek Revival Robert Alvis House of 1855, the Thomas W. Tignor House of 1856, an Italianate double house, and the 1874 Bellevue School, which lost its second story to a hurricane in 1950. The former Monte Maria Convent, built around an 1859 Italianate house, is also included. The amendment further describes 140 buildings from 1900 to 1920, mostly brick or frame houses with Queen Anne or Colonial Revival details. Other early twentieth-century examples are the 1921 Neoclassical Church Hill Bank, the Tudor Revival Bellevue School of 1912, St. Patrick's School, and several factories and warehouses. This documentation supports extending the district's period of significance into the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Bascom J. Rowlett (Church Hill Bank); James Fox & Sons (contractors); Carneal and Johnston (Bellevue School, 1912); Marcellus Wright (St. Patrick's School); Philip Johnson (WRVA Radio Studio)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Victorian Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many buildings remain in use as dwellings, shops and other uses; the former Bellevue School was converted to condominiums in 1978, and the Monte Maria Convent became a retreat center in 1988.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.372232-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/6828/41682878/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/90002097.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002097/05155f8252-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90002097/05155f8252-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"RVA all day","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HousesOnLibbyHill.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">RVA all day</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HousesOnLibbyHill.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"70000884","name":"St. John's Church Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/st-johns-church-historic-district-70000884/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682878","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Church_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137362681"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/st-johns-church-historic-district-boundary-increase-90002097/"}