NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: Ginter Park Historic District 2017 Boundary Increase Other names/site number: DHR No. 127-0201 Name of related multiple property listing: N/A (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: parts of Brook Road and Seminary and Chamberlayne avenues (northern increase area); and Montrose, Moss Side, and Noble avenues (eastern increase area) City or town: Richmond State: VA County: Independent City Not For Publication: N/A Vicinity: N/A ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _X__ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide _X__local Applicable National Register Criteria: _X__A ___B _X__C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date _Virginia Department of Historic Resources_____________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5/31/2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NPS Form 10-900a). 1. Name of Property historic name Ginter Park Historic District 2009 Update and Boundary Increase other names/site number VDHR File No. 127-0201 2. Location street & number parts of Seminary Avenue, Brook Road, Chamberlayne Avenue, Moss N/A not for publication Side Avenue, Montrose Avenue, Noble Avenue, and North Avenue N/A city or town Richmond vicinity state Virginia code VA county Independent City code 760 zip code 23227 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination _ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X _ meets _ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: national statewide X local Signature of certifying official/Title Date Virginia Department of Historic Resources State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official Date Title State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Ginter Park Historic District 2017 Boundary Richmond, VA Increase Name of Property County and State ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) District X Site Structure Object Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Ginter Park Historic District 2017 Boundary Richmond, VA Increase Name of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ___201________ _____33_______ buildings _____0________ ______0_______ sites _____0________ ______0_______ structures _____0________ ______0_______ objects ___201________ _____33_______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ___0______ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) DOMESTIC: Single Dwelling; Multiple Dwelling RELIGIOUS: Religious Facility ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) DOMESTIC: Single Dwelling; Multiple Dwelling RELIGIOUS: Religious Facility ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Ginter Park Historic District 2017 Boundary Richmond, VA Increase Name of Property County and State _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) LATE VICTORIAN: Queen Anne LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS: Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Gothic Revival; Italian Renaissance; Dutch Revival; Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS: Bungalow/Craftsman ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: BRICK; STUCCO; WOOD; STONE: Slate; METAL; ASPHALT Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph The Ginter Park Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, covers a twenty-block area in Richmond’s Northside area. The original district is approximately bounded by Claremont and North avenues to the north, Moss Side and Noble avenues to the east, W. Brookland Park Boulevard to the south, and Brook Road to the west. The area was planned by Major Lewis Ginter, a prominent businessman and philanthropist in Richmond who purchased several hundred acres in what was then Henrico County between 1883 and 1891. The National Register nomination for the district states, “Ginter’s concept for his development epitomized state-of-the-art community planning in its day by its generous residential plat subdivisions organized in an extended grid pattern, its varied and eclectic juxtaposition of fine single family dwellings within the grid layout, and its trend-setting reliance on the new mechanical wonder, the electric trolley.”1 The 2017 Boundary Increase consists of two discontiguous areas, north and east of the existing district boundaries. Both Boundary Increase areas continue the use of the grid pattern, and properties within them display