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Margaret Stallings walks down the original wooden staircase inside the 114-year-old St. Luke building at 900 St. James St., which still has many of the coveted features of the city’s older buildings.

Margaret Stallings walks down the original wooden staircase inside the 114-year-old St. Luke building at 900 St. James St., which still has many of the coveted features of the city’s older buildings.

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Reclaiming history

St. Luke building, first home of Maggie L. Walker’s bank, is being turned into upscale apartments to spur development in Gilpin Court

Upscale apartments are taking shape in the long-empty St. Luke Building, the once vital four-story headquarters of a mutual aid society where renowned Richmond businesswoman Maggie L. Walker once had a bank.