The Central National Bank building is a 23-story (282 ft[3]) Art Deco skyscraper located in Richmond, Virginia.
[4] According to architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson, it and the West Hospital building, are the only two skyscrapers in Richmond to have used the fashionable Art Deco ziggurat-inspired setback, and only a few others exist elsewhere in Virginia.
After nearly fifteen years of vacancy, it was converted into apartments, and the first resident moved into the building in mid-2016.
Broad Street (its roughly 115 feet (35 m) width double the average in the city) divided the more trendy southern neighborhood centered on Grace and Franklin Streets from Jackson Ward, which shifted in demographics during this period from a German and Jewish neighborhood to an African American one.
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