Name: Monumental Church
Address: 1224 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, 23219

Monumental Church was designed by Robert Mills, America’s first native born architect. It was on this site that the Virginia Ratifying Convention was held for three weeks in June, 1788. Constructed in 1814, the structure is a memorial to the 72 individuals that died in the Richmond Theater Fire of 1811. Monumental Church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1969. It resides in Richmond’s historic Court End, slightly north of Shockoe Slip and west of Church Hill.

Monumental Church

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