Ginter Park Historic District

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.