Shockoe Slip Historic District (Boundary Increase II)

This boundary increase adds five surviving brick buildings to Richmond's Shockoe Slip Historic District, on South 15th Street and East Main Street. They include a five-story 1916 warehouse designed by Carneal and Johnston and later used by Philip Morris, a 1955 steel-framed tobacco shed sheathed in corrugated metal by Baskervill & Son, and an 1898 three-story building known as the Buggy Factory, where farm implements and vehicles were sold and repaired. Three smaller buildings once housed commission merchants and wholesale grocers. Two of them, at 11 and 15 South 15th Street, date from the late 1850s and are thought to have survived the 1865 Evacuation Fire. Their granite storefronts are believed to be the last of their kind in the city. The buildings were added because they match the scale, materials and commercial and industrial character of the existing district. Most have been converted to offices, retail and apartments.