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Built
  
1869 (1869)

VLR #
  
127-0023

Opened
  
1869

Added to NRHP
  
26 February 1970

NRHP Reference #
  
70000885

Designated VLR
  
December 2, 1969

Area
  
1,200 m²

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Location
  
1007-1013 E. Main St., Richmond, Virginia

Similar
  
Agecroft Hall, Branch House, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Monroe Park, Maggie L Walker National

Stearns Iron-Front Building, also known as the Stearns Block, is a historic commercial building located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1869, and is a four-story, 14 bay, brick building with a cast iron front. The building measures 107 feet wide by 64 feet deep.

Richmond Unionist Franklin Stearns acquired what had once been the Planters Bank Building on Main Street after the [[American Civil War]. In 1868 he erected rental housing and commercial office space, which was nicknamed the "Stearns block." The city's circuit court was held there beginning in 1870. His grandchildren's estate sold the property in 1923; the remaining iron front was noted in the Historic American Buildings Survey.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

References

Stearns Iron-Front Building Wikipedia


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