Science Museum of Virginia (Richmond, Virginia)
USA /
Virginia /
Richmond /
Richmond, Virginia /
West Broad Street (U.S. Route 250), 2500
World
/ USA
/ Virginia
/ Richmond
museum, interesting place, Beaux-Arts (architecture), science museum
Former Broad Street Station which was designed c. 1917 in the Beaux Arts style by John Russell Pope with structural elements by the Guastavino Fireproof Tile Co. It is now adaptively reused as the Science Museum of Virginia.
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archive.org/details/nsarchitecturalr816bostuoft/page/34...
archive.org/details/johnrussellpopea00bedf/page/35/mode...
archive.org/details/nsarchitecturalr816bostuoft/page/15...
archive.org/details/archit00edge/page/307/mode/1up
archive.org/details/nsarchitecturalr816bostuoft/page/34...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Street_Station_(Richmond)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°33'41"N 77°27'56"W
- Werowocomoco 70 km
- Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse 76 km
- Fredericksburg Battlefield 81 km
- Stratford Hall Plantation 86 km
- Battle of Chancellorsville 86 km
- Battle of the Wilderness 90 km
- Aerojet Propellant Lab 94 km
- Battle of Hampton Roads 110 km
- Manassas National Battlefield Park 143 km
- Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge 152 km
- The Fan District 0.9 km
- The Museum District 1.2 km
- Carytown 1.7 km
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Monroe Park Campus 1.9 km
- Randolph 2.2 km
- William Byrd Park 2.4 km
- CSX Acca Yard 3.3 km
- Henrico County, Virginia 5.4 km
- Chesterfield County, Virginia 21 km
- Hanover County, Virginia 24 km