James Monroe Building

The James Monroe Building is an office building located in Downtown Richmond, Virginia. It is the tallest building in Richmond at 137 meters and 29 floors.

Photo: Daniel Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Virginia State Capitol and Richmond Main Street Station.

Virginia State Capitol

Government office

Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.

The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in Richmond, the state capital. It houses the oldest elected legislative body in North America, the Virginia General Assembly, first established as the House of Burgesses in 1619. Virginia State Capitol is situated 1,400 feet northwest of James Monroe Building.

Richmond Main Street Station

Railway station

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Richmond Main Street Station, officially the Main Street Station and Trainshed, is a historic railroad station and office building in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond Main Street Station is situated 740 feet south of James Monroe Building.

Main Street Station

Railway station

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Main Street Station is a railway station, which is situated 610 feet southeast of James Monroe Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Slip and Shockoe Bottom.

Shockoe Slip

Neighborhood

Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.

Shockoe Slip is a district in the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia. The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former James River and Kanawha Canal.

Shockoe Bottom

Neighborhood

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Shockoe Bottom, historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in Richmond, Virginia, just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill and Church Hill, Shockoe Bottom contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

Union Hill

Neighborhood

Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.

Union Hill is a historic district of Richmond, Virginia. According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington…

James Monroe Building

Type: Commerce
Description: building in Virginia, United States
Category: building
Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.53626° or 37° 32′ 11″ north

Longitude

-77.43013° or 77° 25′ 49″ west

Elevation

85 feet (26 metres)

Levels

Height

449 feet (137 metres)

Named after

James Monroe

Open location code

8794GHP9+GW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 365155749

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=commercial

GeoNames ID

4766468

Wikidata ID

Q6139905

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Persian—“James Monroe Building” goes by many names.

Chinese: “詹姆斯·門羅大樓”
Chinese: “詹姆斯·门罗大楼”
Croatian: “James Monroe Building”
Persian: “ساختمان جیمز مونرو”

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