Monumental Church

Architect: Robert Mills
Style: Greek Revival
City: Richmond, VA
Collection: greek revival

Monumental Church was designed by Robert Mills and built as a memorial on the site of the 1811 theater fire, one of the deadliest disasters in Richmond's history. Its Greek Revival design gave the memorial a distinctive commemorative building type rather than a conventional church form.

the building

Fire memorial. The church stands on the site of the 1811 Richmond theater fire, built specifically as a memorial to those who died — a story that gives the building its name and its reason for being.

the style

Monumental Church is built in the Greek Revival style.

the architect

Robert Mills, the architect, is a nationally significant figure in early American architecture.

significance

Monumental Church is a National Historic Landmark, a Virginia Historic Landmark, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

First African Baptist Church 280 ft · Greek Revival · 1877
Virginia Department of Highways Building 370 ft · Neoclassical · 1937
First Baptist Church 440 ft · Greek Revival
Charlotte Williams Memorial Hospital 500 ft · Renaissance Revival
Egyptian Building 0.1 mi · Egyptian Revival · 1845
White House of the Confederacy 0.1 mi · Renaissance Revival

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