The 1.5-mile walkway is interrupted currently by construction of a floodwall. We suggest you read the downtown exhibit at 12th and Main streets, then walk to the Tidewater Locks a little more than two blocks south. E. Broad St. This Victorian Gothic building, completed as Richmond's city hall in 1894, is as dramatic inside its 3-foot granite walls as it is outside. Troubled from the beginning, with a 400 percent cost overrun during its construction, the building was saved from demolition by the Historic Richmond Foundation.
Visitors welcome on the first floor only.
Building open during business hours. This small white frame chapel is one of the two structures surviving from a Confederate soldier's home established here in 1883. Funerals for more than 1,700 old soldiers and their relatives were held in this chapel still filled with Confederate symbols. As many as 300 ex-soldiers lived on the site of the current Virginia Museum. Another structure from the home, the Robinson House, is located just north of the main museum building.