The Stearns Iron-Front Building, also known as the Stearns Block, is a historic commercial building located in Richmond, Virginia. It is a four-story brick structure with 14 bays and a cast iron front. The building measures 107 feet wide by 64 feet deep.
Richmond Unionist Franklin Stearns acquired what was formerly the Planters Bank Building on Main Street after the American Civil War. In 1868, he erected rental housing and commercial office space, which became known as the Stearns block. Starting in 1870, the city's circuit court was held in the building.
His grandchildren's estate sold the property in 1923. The remaining iron front was later noted in the Historic American Buildings Survey. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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