Carver Industrial Historic District
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The Carver Industrial Historic District is a national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at Carver,
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. The district encompasses 13 contributing buildings located west of downtown Richmond. The industrial area developed between 1890 and 1930, along the tracks of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th-century and early 20th century architectural styles including Queen Anne and Romanesque. Notable buildings include the Peter Stumpf Brewing Company or the Home Brewery (1891), Baughman Stationery Company (1903), Consumers' Ice Company building (1906), American Tobacco Company warehouse (1906), Eagle Paper Company building (1912), Export Leaf Tobacco Company factory (1915), Haines, Jones and Cadbury Company (1926), Saunders Oil Company building (c. 1930), and the Virginia Railroad and Power Company substation (1915). an
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.


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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Romanesque Revival architecture in Virginia Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad {{RichmondCityVA-NRHP-stub