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Richmond Times-Dispatch Newspapers Plant

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1990–1992, Baskervill and Son. Times-Dispatch Blvd. (I-295, exit 41, U.S. 301 north, .3 mile), Hanover County
  • (courtesy Richard Guy Wilson)

A stunning high-tech newspaper printing plant, the sprawling 428,000-square-foot building is sheathed in aluminum panels of three different colors that delineate the different sections. Exposed structural steel is visible through clerestory window bands.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Richard Guy Wilson et al., "Richmond Times-Dispatch Newspapers Plant", [Mechanicsville, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-RI388.

Print Source

Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 299-299.

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