St. John's Church Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Church Hill in Richmond holds the city's largest concentration of antebellum houses, along with later residential, commercial and industrial buildings. This amendment extends the district to include the 2100 blocks of East Broad and East Grace streets, adding twenty buildings from 1855 to 1895. Among them are the Greek Revival Robert Alvis House of 1855, the Thomas W. Tignor House of 1856, an Italianate double house, and the 1874 Bellevue School, which lost its second story to a hurricane in 1950. The former Monte Maria Convent, built around an 1859 Italianate house, is also included. The amendment further describes 140 buildings from 1900 to 1920, mostly brick or frame houses with Queen Anne or Colonial Revival details. Other early twentieth-century examples are the 1921 Neoclassical Church Hill Bank, the Tudor Revival Bellevue School of 1912, St. Patrick's School, and several factories and warehouses. This documentation supports extending the district's period of significance into the early twentieth century.