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Morson's Row, also known as James Morson's Row, is a set of three historic
rowhouses In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house (British English, UK) or townhouse (American English, US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings party ...
located in
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. They were built in 1853, and are three-story, three bay brick structures with flat roofs. They feature Italianate style heavy bracketed cornices, arched door enframements, and elaborately molded consoled lintel over the windows. The distinctive feature of the row is the off-center, two-bay bow on each house. an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1969.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Italianate architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1856 Houses in Richmond, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia {{RichmondCityVA-NRHP-stub