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Stearns Iron-Front Building

Stearns Iron-Front Building
Stearns Iron Front Building, 1007-1013 East Main Street (Richmond, Independent City, Virginia).jpg
Stearns Iron-Front Building, HABS Photo
Stearns Iron-Front Building is located in Virginia
Stearns Iron-Front Building
Stearns Iron-Front Building is located in the US
Stearns Iron-Front Building
Location 1007-1013 E. Main St., Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates 37°32′14″N 77°26′8″W / 37.53722°N 77.43556°W / 37.53722; -77.43556Coordinates: 37°32′14″N 77°26′8″W / 37.53722°N 77.43556°W / 37.53722; -77.43556
Area 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built 1869 (1869)
NRHP reference # 70000885
VLR # 127-0023
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 26, 1970
Designated VLR December 2, 1969

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.



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