Jackson Ward Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This addition to Jackson Ward in Richmond brings in a block-by-block strip of buildings along North First, Second and Third Streets, East Marshall Street and one double house on North Adams Street. Most are brick commercial buildings of one to three stories, and several began as houses that were altered with storefronts. The earliest is a Federal-style townhouse at 400 North Second Street, built about 1830. An Italianate double house at 106-108 East Marshall survives from about 1900, and the 1914 Neoclassical Revival Fraternal Order of Eagles building stands at the eastern edge. Directory and map research shows the area changing from residential to commercial by the 1920s, with a growing number of African American shopkeepers and residents. Businesses included a barber shop, dry cleaner, shoe shops and a pool hall, and the NAACP's Richmond office was in one building. The area was added because it shares the scale, materials and development pattern of the original historic district, with a period of significance of 1800 to 1926.