Dept. of General Services, Architectural drawings for Main Street Station and Consolidated Laboratories, Richmond, Virginia, 1970-2000

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
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POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
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Preferred citation:

Virginia. Dept. of General Services, Architectural drawings for Main Street Station and Consolidated Laboratory, 1970-2000. Accession 42311. State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Virginia. Dept. of General Services, Architectural drawings for Main Street Station and Consolidated Laboratory, 1970-2000. Accession 42311. State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This accession contains three boxes of architectural drawings and specifications for two public buildings in Richmond, Virginia. The first, Main Street Station, was originally built for use as a railroad station. In the 1980s, it was adaptively reused as a shopping mall. After that venture failed, the state government took over the building for use as office space. In 2000, Main Street Station was restored and returned to its original function as a railroad station.

The second structure, Consolidated Laboratories, was constructed in 1967 and demolished in 2003. It housed many of the Commonwealth's laboratory facilities.

Box 1 contains an 84 sheet drawing set titled "The Marketplace at Main Street Station" by SWA Architects, 1983. This set contains civil, architectural, and structural drawings on paper and Mylar. Also included in this box is a 39 sheet drawing set titled "Renovation of Main Street Station and Seaboard Building" by Dewberry and Davis, Architects, 1989. This set contains "As Built" general, site, structural, and architectural drawings on Mylar and paper.

Box 2 contains a 123 sheet drawing set titled "Main Street Station Multimodal Transportation Center" by Harry Weese Associates, 2000. This set contains general, removal, civil-landscape, and architectural drawings on paper. Also included in Box 2 is an eight sheet set a floor plans for Consolidated Laboratories by Hays, Seay, Mattern, and Mattern, Architects, 1969. These "As Built" drawings are Diazo prints.

Box 3 contains one volume (384 leaves) of architectural specifications by SWA Architects for the "The Marketplace at Main Street Station" project. Also included is a one volume (289 leaves) set of architectural specifications for "The Renovation of Main Street Station and the Seaboard Building" by Dewberry and Davis.

Acquisition information:
Transferred from the Dept. of General Services, Richmond, Virginia, 18 November 2005.
Physical description:
84 sheets of mostly electrostatic prints, some Mylar (91 x 61 cm. and smaller), 39 sheets of mostly Mylar, some electrostatic prints (77 x 108 cm.), 8 sheets of Diazo prints (72 x 104 cm.), 123 sheets of electrostatic prints (56 x 87 cm.), 1 volume (384 leaves), and 1 volume (289 leaves).