Nathaniel Bacon School, Richmond

Name: Nathaniel Bacon School
Address: Richmond, United States

#272 among attractions in Richmond

Colonial revival architecture

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Nathaniel Bacon School is a historic school building located in Richmond, Virginia. The structure was built in 1914 based on a design by Charles M. Robinson, supervising architect, and William L. Carneal, architect. The Colonial Revival building is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure located in Richmond's Oakwood/Chimborazo Historic District. The school was "a focal point of the Chimborazo neighborhood." The school was named for Nathaniel Bacon, the leader of Bacon's Rebellion. It served as an elementary school in the Richmond Public Schools from the time of its opening in 1915. In 1958, it was converted for use as a school for African-American students. In 1971, it was converted into a junior high school and renamed the East End Junior High School Annex. The building ceased operating as a school in the 1980s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. ()

Coordinates: 37°31'51"N, 77°24'17"W

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ChimborazoRichmond United States

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Nathaniel Bacon School – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Virginia Holocaust Museum, Edgar Allan Poe Museum, St. John's Episcopal Church, Chimborazo Park.

1.2 miW
Powerful museum with free admission
Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond
30 min walk • The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims.
1.2 miW
Photos, memorabilia and a Raven Room
Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Richmond
30 min walk • The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
0.8 miW
Historic place with costumed tour guides
St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond
21 min walk • St. John's Church is an Episcopal church located at 2401 East Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Formed from several earlier parishes, St. John's is the oldest church in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
0.5 miSW
Park, Garden, Playground
Chimborazo Park, Richmond
13 min walk • Chimborazo Park is a park and historic land site in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Created in 1874, the park was the site of Chimborazo Hospital, one of the world's largest military hospitals.
0.5 miNW
Greek Revival architecture, Church
Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond
13 min walk • Fourth Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1884, and is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure. It features a distyle portico in antis elevated on a high podium.
0.7 miNE
Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond
17 min walk • Oakwood Cemetery is a large, city-owned burial ground in the East End of Richmond, Virginia. It holds over 48,000 graves, including many soldiers from the Civil War.
0.7 miW
Greek Revival architecture, Church
Leigh Street Baptist Church, Richmond
17 min walk • Leigh Street Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church in Church Hill North Historic District which is in Richmond, Virginia. It was designed by architect Samuel Sloan and built between 1854 and 1857. It is a three-story, Greek Revival style stuccoed brick structure.
0.9 miE
Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond
24 min walk • Evergreen Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery in the East End of Richmond, Virginia, dating from 1891. The most recent burial in the historic section of the cemetery dates from the 1980s.
1.1 miW
Church
Trinity Methodist Church, Richmond
27 min walk • Trinity Methodist Church, also known as Trinity United Methodist Church and New Light Baptist Church, is a historic Methodist church located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built between 1859 and 1875, and is a three-story, Italianate style stuccoed brick structure.
0.5 miSW
Museum
Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond
13 min walk • Chimborazo Hospital was a Civil War-era facility built in Richmond, Virginia to service the medical needs of the Confederate Army. It functioned between 1862 and 1865 in what is now Chimborazo Park, treating over 76,000 injured Confederate soldiers.
0.4 miNW
Neighbourhood
East End, Richmond
11 min walk • The East End of Richmond, Virginia is the quadrant of the City of Richmond, Virginia, and more loosely the Richmond metropolitan area, east of the downtown.

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Nearby attractions include East End, Richmond (11 min walk), Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond (13 min walk), Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond (13 min walk), Chimborazo Park, Richmond (13 min walk).