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Looking East on Broad Street at VCU. Broad Street is a 15-mile-long (24 km) road located in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, and adjacent Henrico County.Broad Street is significant to Richmond due to the many commercial establishments that have been built along it throughout Richmond's history.
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.
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 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.
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.
A new historic highway marker was erected at the burial ground in October 2024, and is located at the corner of N 16th St., and E Broad St. [11] In 1810 free Black Richmonders petitioned for a new site, and in 1816 the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground was closed and two new burying grounds were opened, The "Burying Ground for Free People of ...
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.
Monumental Church is a former Episcopal church at 1224 E. Broad Street between N. 12th and College streets in Richmond, Virginia.Designed by architect Robert Mills, it is one of America's earliest and most distinctive Greek Revival churches.