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Richmond is often subdivided into North Side, Southside, East End and West End. The Greater Richmond area extends beyond the city limits into nearby counties. Descriptions of Richmond often describe the large area as falling into one of the four primarily geographic references which somewhat mirror the points of a compass: North Side, Southside, East End and West End.
Downtown Richmond is the central business district of Richmond, Virginia, United States. It is generally defined as being bound by Belvidere Street to the west, I-95 to the north and east, and the James River to the south. The Fan district borders it to the west, Highland Park to the north, Church Hill to the east, and Manchester to the south.
Fan District. The Fan is a district of Richmond, Virginia, so named because of the "fan" shape of the array of streets that extend west from Belvidere Street, on the eastern edge of Monroe Park, westward to Arthur Ashe Boulevard. However, the streets rapidly resemble a grid after they go through what is now Virginia Commonwealth University.
The east end of Broad Street is located at the northeastern edge of Chimborazo Park.It extends through Church Hill to Downtown Richmond.Also known as U.S. Route 250 west of Downtown Richmond, it extends west through Richmond's West End all the way to the outermost suburbs of Richmond just beyond Short Pump near the intersection of I-295 and I-64.
A row of houses in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond. The district was listed as a Landmark District in 1978.. Richmond, Virginia, is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the fifth largest city in the state in terms of population, [1] and the main anchor city for the Greater Richmond Region, the third largest metropolitan statistical area in the Commonwealth, and the ...
December 8, 1976 [4] Designated VLR. July 7, 1970 [2] Location. Richmond Main Street Station, officially the Main Street Station and Trainshed, is a historic railroad station and office building in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1901, and is served by Amtrak. It is also an intermodal station with Richmond's city transit bus services, which ...
Roughly along E. Carey St. between S. 14th and S. 12th Sts.; also roughly bounded by the former Seaboard Coast Line railroad tracks, the Downtown Expressway, Main, Dock, and 12th Sts.; also 11-15 and 101 S. 15th St., and 1433 E. Main St.; also the 300 block of S. 11th, 1200 and 1300 E. Byrd Sts., 1201 Haxall Pt., and the Thirteenth Street Bridge
Richmond (/ ˈrɪtʃmənd / RITCH-mənd) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, [7] making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. [8]