The WRVA Building is an building located at 200 N. 22nd St. in the historic Church Hill district of

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. Designed by world-renowned architect

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while he was at the architectural firm of Budina and Freeman, it was originally built to house

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, one of Virginia's first broadcast radio stations. The building is considered "one of the city's most visible and important mid-20th-century architectural landmarks."Slipek, Edwin. Style Weekly, "Temple on a Hill." (July 2, 2008) ChildSavers, a Richmond nonprofit child services agency, is the current occupant.

Renovation

From 2007 until 2008, the WRVA Building underwent an extensive $5.4 Million renovation for use by ChildSavers. Baskervill, a Richmond architecture firm, treated the building with great care to successfully design its

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. Very few structural changes were needed during its renovation.

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External links

* http://www.mcgcva.com/default.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20050205084710/http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/radio/voice.htm Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia Modernist architecture in Virginia