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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 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.
Roughly along E. Carey St. between S. 14th and S. 12th Sts.; also roughly bounded by the former Seaboard Coast Line railroad tracks, the Downtown Expressway, Main, Dock, and 12th Sts.; also 11-15 and 101 S. 15th St., and 1433 E. Main St.; also the 300 block of S. 11th, 1200 and 1300 E. Byrd Sts., 1201 Haxall Pt., and the Thirteenth Street Bridge
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.
Church Hill, also known as the St. John's Church Historic District, is an Old and Historic District in Richmond, Virginia. This district encompasses the original land plat of the city of Richmond. Church Hill is the eastern terminus of Broad Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the Richmond metropolitan area.
The Patrick Henry Building is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia.Formerly designated simply as the Old State Library or the Virginia State Library and Archives and Virginia Supreme Court, it was renovated, then rededicated and renamed for the Founding Father and former Virginia Governor Patrick Henry on June 13, 2005.
The Silver Comet, and The Silver Star at left at Broad Street Station on March 9, 1969 Map of Broad Street Station in 1934. It was built as the southern terminus for the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) in 1917 in the neoclassical style by the architect John Russell Pope.
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.