Carver Residential Historic District

Carver Residential Historic District lies northwest of downtown Richmond, Virginia, and covers parts of the 700-1500 blocks of West Leigh, Catherine, Clay and Marshall streets. The land was long held by the Buchanan family and remained largely undeveloped until the 1840s and 1850s, when modest brick dwellings for small shop owners and tradesmen were built. A second phase from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth added frame houses, brick row houses, double houses and a few tenements, placed close together on narrow lots. Greek Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne examples occur, though most buildings are vernacular. The district also includes a planing mill, a 1924 stationery manufacturing building, the 1887 George Washington Carver Elementary School, and the 1909 Moore Street Baptist Church. Apartment buildings of the 1920s reflect limited later growth. The district counts 311 contributing buildings, one contributing site and nine non-contributing buildings, and 43 of its buildings are also part of the Jackson Ward Historic District.