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Virginia Department of Highways Building

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Built
  
1937 (1937)

VLR #
  
127-0844-0001

Opened
  
1937

Architectural style
  
Stripped Classicism

NRHP Reference #
  
04000270

Designated VLR
  
June 18, 2003

Area
  
5,700 m²

Added to NRHP
  
5 April 2004

Virginia Department of Highways Building

Location
  
1401 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia

Built by
  
Virginia Engineering Co.

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

Virginia Department of Highways Building, also known as the State Highway Commission Building, is a historic government office building located in Richmond, Virginia. The building serves as headquarters for the Virginia Department of Transportation. It was built in 1937, and is a four-story, Stripped Classicism style building. It is of steel and reinforced concrete construction, with a veneer of limestone, Virginia greenstone, and pink granite.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

Virginia Department of Highways Building Wikipedia