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The West Broad Street Industrial and Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 29 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object built between 1902 and the 1930s.
The West Broad Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings built between about 1900 and the late 1930s.
The east end of Broad Street is located at the northeastern edge of Chimborazo Park.It extends through Church Hill to Downtown Richmond.Also known as U.S. Route 250 west of Downtown Richmond, it extends west through Richmond's West End all the way to the outermost suburbs of Richmond just beyond Short Pump near the intersection of I-295 and I-64.
Along Broad St., an area roughly bounded by Belvidere, Marshall, 4th, and Grace; also 709-916 W. Broad St., 308-310 N. Laurel St., and 301-306 Gilmer St.; also the southern side of the 100 block of E. Marshall St., and the 300 blocks of 1st and 2nd Sts., between Broad and Marshall Sts.
The Richmond Arts and Culture District stretches from the Institute for Contemporary Art on West Broad to the Virginia State Capitol and spans the Monroe Ward and Jackson Ward neighborhoods The Arts District was designed to be the center of artistic, cultural, civic, and commercial activity. [ 1 ]
A row of houses in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond. The district was listed as a Landmark District in 1978.. Richmond, Virginia, is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the fifth largest city in the state in terms of population, [1] and the main anchor city for the Greater Richmond Region, the third largest metropolitan statistical area in the Commonwealth, and the ...
At the end of the 19th and into the 20th century, Richmond, Virginia was rapidly growing. Broad Street (its roughly 115 feet (35 m) width double the average in the city) divided the more trendy southern neighborhood centered on Grace and Franklin Streets from Jackson Ward, which shifted in demographics during this period from a German and Jewish neighborhood to an African American one.
By 1909, the Richmond Broad Street store covered nearly half a city block, and by 1924, it covered an entire block, stretching from Broad to Grace Street, ultimately expanding to nearly half a million square feet of floor space. During the middle part of the 20th century, the growth of Miller & Rhoads in Richmond was at its peak.