Fan Area Historic District (Boundary Increase)

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.