Monumental Church

Monumental Church is a former Episcopal church at 1224 E. Broad Street between N. 12th and College streets in . Designed by architect Robert Mills, it is one of America's earliest and most distinctive Greek Revival churches.
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  • Type: Historic building
  • Description: church building in Virginia, United States of America
  • Address: 1224 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include VCU Medical Center and White House of the Confederacy.

Hospital
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The , formerly known as the Medical College of Virginia, is the public medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, located in downtown , United States. is situated 490 feet north of Monumental Church.

Museum
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The Second is a historic house located in the Court End neighborhood of . Built in 1818, it was the main executive residence of the sole President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, from August 1861 until April 1865. is situated 670 feet north of Monumental Church.

Government office
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The is the seat of state government of the , located in , 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. is situated 1,100 feet west of Monumental Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Slip and Union Hill.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the downtown area of . The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former .

Neighborhood
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is a historic district of , . 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…

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

Monumental Church

Latitude
37.53889° or 37° 32′ 20″ north
Longitude
-77.42984° or 77° 25′ 47″ west
Open location code
8794GHQC+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 224530979
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Wiki­data ID
Q6906925
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In Other Languages

“Monumental Church” goes by many names.
  • Japanese: “モニュメンタル・チャーチ”

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