Completed in 1861 as a place of refuge for the city's poor. Designed by Washington Gill, it served as the first major hospital of the Confederacy. It is on the Virginia Landmarks Register.

Photographed 6 Dec 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Completed in 1894, it was designed by young Richmond architect Benjamin West Poindexter who was in partnership with Charles K. Bryant at the time, 920 West Franklin Street was built as a three-bay-wide, two-and-one -half-story house on a side-hall plan. Mary Pegram Anderson was the second wife and widow of Joseph R. Anderson of Tredegar Iron Works. Mrs. Anderson had been known and well respected as Miss Pegram prior to her marriage in the early 1880s.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built in 1844, the Greek Revival mansion is perhaps the finest and best-preserved survivor of it's type in the city. William Barret was a tobacconist and was regarded as Richmond's richest citizen in 1870. It is a Registered Virginia Landmark.

Photographed 4 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz

Built 1910 by architects Noland and Baskervill, RVA, at 923 West Franklin Street, at the corner of Franklin and Harrison. The Berkeley Apartments was the fourth apartment house on West Franklin, following the much larger Chesterfield, Raleigh and Gresham Court Apartments. The original owner was Caroline C. Wise.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

One of the earlier extant houses on West Franklin Street. Built for Sylvanus Blanchard 1881-1883, a wholesale grocer, the house is in the Second Empire style.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built in 1887-88, in Italianate style, the house was built for Nathaniel Woodson Bowe, who started his career as a bookkeeper for Grubbs & Williams, Real Estate Agents & Auctioneers. He then became partner in Williams & Bowe, Real Estate & loans, with A.D. Williams in 1884, and later established N.W. Bowe & Sons, real estate. This classic design offsets the more flamboyant facades on the street.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built during the Golden Age of Railroads, it was designed by John Russell Pope in 1913. It has a Tuscan colonnade and a Roman dome. It was completed in 1919. It now operates as The Science Museum of Virginia. It is a Registered Landmark.

Photographed 21 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz

Architect: Peter J. Lauritsen, NYC. The house was commissioned by Sue Williams Buek and Charles E. Buek, daughter and son-in-law of tobacco magnate T.C. Williams, Sr. According to Buek's daughter, the house was built on family property, at the edge of the garden of the T.C. Williams, Sr. House. Buek was listed in directories as secretary of Curtis & Buek, foreign ship brokers, and manager of Richmond Elevator Company.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built in 1847, it is the sole survivor of the fashionable neighborhood that was once on Gamble's Hill. The house has served as the headquarters of the Virginia Education Association since 1951. It is a Registered Virginia Landmark.

Photographed 4 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Found at the bottom of the excavation for the One James Plaza in Richmond. Located on what was the turning basin for the packet boats in the canal. Evidently they just scuttled the boats they weren't using any more.

Photographed August 1983 and Contributed by Contributed by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Richmond, VA

Taken by Elizabeth  in 1992 from the observation deck of the new City Hall in Richmond. It is the rear view of the Capitol. The building in the upper right corner with the reddish roof is the old Post Office building. It was the only other building besides the Capitol to survive the Evacuation fire in April
1864.

Contributed by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Richmond, VA

Contributed by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Richmond, VA

Erected as memorial to the Virginians that fell in World War I. It rises to 240 feet and contains 66 bells on which concerts are given.

Photographed 8 Oct 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

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View from the area of Hollywood Cemetery. Looking downstream towards the business district. From an old postcard about 1900.

Contributed by Gill Pollard

Taken by Elizabeth  in 1992. The Gothic building is the old City Hall built in the 1880s or 90s. The picture was taken from the Observation deck of the new city hall.

Contributed by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Richmond, VA

On the campus of Virginia Union University. It opened in 1899. Burned in 1970, it was restored. It is named after former Maine Governor Abner Coburn. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached here.

Photographed 14 Nov 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Erected in 1887 as a place of worship for the veterans that lived in the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home. Marion J. Dimmock Sr. designed the Gothic Revival Structure. It was used regularly until the last resident veteran died in 1941. It was restored in 1961.

Photographed 5 Nov 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

In Hollywood Cemetery. Charles Dimmock designed the pyramid-shaped monument built of granite from the James River. A volunteer named Thomas Stanley, who was serving a sentence at the State Penitentiary, placed the capstone on November 6, 1868. It is inscribed, To the Confederate Dead - Memoria in Aeterna Numini et Patriae Asto, meaning "In eternal memory of those who stood for God and country."

Photographed January 6, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

over the James River

Photographed 1994 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

In Hollywood Cemetery. Davis is best known for being the President of the Confederate States of America, He was also US Senator and Secy of War.

Photographed Aug 26, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

at Davis Ave. This work by Edward V. Valentine was unveiled in 1907.

The congregation began as a regular assembly of slaves in their quarters. In 1865 they built their own church. The present building was finished in 1884. It is a Registered Virginia Landmark.

Photographed 4 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Part of a historic district.

Photographed Sep 3, 20007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

One of Richmond architect Albert L. West's last commissions before his death in 1892 was this pair of townhouses for two prominent businessmen, Thomas E. Stagg, manufacturer of sashes, blinds and interior finishes, and George B. McAdams, of McAdams & Berry, clothiers. Stone and brick work was carried out by local contractor W.O. Burton. Thomas E. Stagg started out in Richmond as a carpenter, eventually owning his own business, including a planing mill and box factory.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

designed by German architect Carl Ruehrmund for William G. Stokes . Ruehrmund received his training at the Royal Academy of Architecture in Berlin, and emigrated the States in 1881. The three-story Stokes House was built on a side-hall plan. Stokes made his money in the wholesale grocery and commission merchant business,began his career working for his father's company, A.Y. Stokes & Company. After the death of the senior Stokes in 1886, Thomas Potts, W.G. Stokes, and brother Allen Y. Stokes, Jr., formed Potts, Stokes & Co., wholesale grocers and commission merchants. After the dissolution of Potts, Stokes, & Co., W.G. Stokes went into business manufacturing harnesses in the firm Wright & Stokes, steam tannery and collar factory.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

922 West Franklin Street, one of the so-called Italianate houses of the 900 block of West Franklin Street. Built by architect Albert L. West, RVA, in 1888-89 for clerk Percival S. Grant, it was occupied by C.P. Stokes, of 805 West Franklin Street, as soon as 1892.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

On West Franklin Street, built in 1886. The house was built by local contractors Trexler & Elmore for Thomas H. Gunn, partner in Christian & Gunn, tobacco stemmers and commission merchants. Gunn died in 1888 and his heirs sold the property in the early 1890s to T. William Pemberton.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Designed by Henry Latrobe for Michael Hancock, it was completed in 1809. It has an arcaded gallery and marble trim. The interior woodwork is of the finest quality. It has been the home of a U.S. attorney general and two mayors of the city.

Photographed 6 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Built 1887 for John Dunlop, a lawyer and reputed poker associate of Lewis Ginter, and his wife, Mildred Maury Dunlop.

Photographed 2 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

General Ambrose Powell Hill was killed April 2, 1865. He was first buried in the Winston Family Cemetery near Richmond. In 1867 he was moved to Hollywood Cemetery. In 1891 General Hill's remains were, once again, disinterred and placed at the base of his monument at the busy intersection of Laburnum and Hermitage in Richmond. It was donated by the wealthy Confederate Major Lewis Ginter.

Photographed 27 July 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Built in the 1940's, the two lane bridge is still heavily used in travel across the James River, between the west end and south Richmond.

Photographed 1998 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

Local architects Noland and Baskervill established a presence on West Franklin Street from the turn of the century to their 1914 plans for the Eppa Hunton, Jr. House. Built at a time when apartment buildings were eclipsing single-family mansions, 810 West Franklin Street was the last single residence built on the 800 and 900 blocks of West Franklin Street. Finished in 1916.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

View from Broad Street in the morning. The building that I95 curves around is the Main Street railway station which has recently been revitalized to handle Amtrak passengers again.

Photographed 1996 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

At Boulevard and Monument Avenue. By F. W. Sievers. Unveiled in 1919. It shows Jackson facing North.

Photographed 8 Oct 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Showing the stonework of the pre-civil war Richmond and Petersburg railroad bridge. The Canal basin was where the twin buildings are to the right. The railroad went up the center of the street and appears in many of the 1865 photos of the ruins of Richmond.

Photographed and Contributed by Gill Pollard

View of the interior. People look forward to the free concerts of the Richmond Pops Band in this splendid setting.

Photographed 1999 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

Designed by prominent local architect, Capt. Marion J. Dimmock. It was built 1880-1891 by local contractor and builder T. Wiley Davis for William Henry Jones, a tobacco merchant of Richmond. Jones sold it in 1899 to A. D. Williams, son of tobacco magnate T.C. Williams, Sr. A.D. Williams was a partner in Grubbs & Williams, real estate agents and auctioneers, until forming a new partnership with N.W. Bowe in 1884, creating Williams & Bowe, Real Estate and Loans. It was acquired by the Richmond Professional Institute in June 1952, at which time alterations were undertaken to divide up the space.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Another view.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

This is a view from Belle Isle of the Robert E. Lee Bridge crossing the James at Richmond.

Photographed Sept 1999 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

At 707 East Franklin Sreet. It is the home General Lee and his family occupied during the Civil War.

Photographed Sep 3, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Historic Marker

Photographed and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

At Allen and Monument Avenues. By M. J. A. Mercie. Unveiled in 1890. The only inscription is "Lee."

Photographed 8 Oct 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Originally named the First Virginia Volunteers Battalion Armory, it is the oldest armory building still standing in the state and was built specifically for an all-black battalion of local militia in 1895.

Photographed Dec 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Marion J. Dimmock designed it for Mrs. William Triplett in 1877. It now serves as an administration building for Virginia Commonwealth University.

Photographed Sep 3, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Opened in 1901 it endured floods and neglect, closing in 1975. It reopened in 1985 as a shopping mall that lasted only two years. In 2003 it reemerged as a train station.

Photographed 31 Dec 1999 and Contributed by George Seitz

Contributed by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Richmond, VA

Unveiled in 1929, it sits at the corner of Monument and Belmont Avenue. Maury faces East and is seated in front of a large globe with figures struggling with the sea and the land.

Photographed 10 July 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

The 100-acre Victorian country estate of James Henry and Sallie May Dooley. The Romanesque-style mansion was completed in 1893. Only six months after Mrs. Dooley's death in 1925, it opened as a public park and museum, and has survived intact.

Photographed 5 Nov 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

The Church House of The Diocese of Virginia, known as Mayo Memorial Churuch House, at 110 West Franklin Street. Built in 1841 and enlarged by tobacconist Peter Mayo in 1884, the house was given to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia by Mayo's daughters in 1923.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Closer view of entrance.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

In Capitol Square. Designed by William Cooper. Unveiled in 1904. McGuire was President of the American Medical and American Surgical Associations. He was Medical Director of Jackson's Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Photographed Sep 3, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Architect William M. Poindexter, WDC, built this Moorish-inspired home, 1891-1894, for Samson Hirsh & Gustavus Millhiser. Gustavus was brother of Hirsh's wife Amelia and partner in Moses Millhiser & Co.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

In Hollywood Cemetery. Monroe (1758-1831) was an officer under Washington during the Revolution, a US Senator, Governor of VA, Secy of State, Secy of War, and the fifth United States President (1817-1825). He first buried at Marble Hill Cem, New York, but was moved to Hollywood Cem in 1858.

Photographed Aug 26, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

Designed in 1912 by the New York architect Alfred C. Bossom, later Lord Bossom. At twelve stories overlooking Monroe Park, the apartment building was the largest to date in the residential quarter. The wood frame house that stood on the site was moved to the North Side. The original house was owned by. Col. Albert Ordway.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Noland and Baskervill designed this Colonial Revival townhouse in 1907, then were hired to redesign the interior seven years later. The townhouse was built long and narrow for the lot, for Edmund Trowbridge Dana Myers, Jr., Civil Engineer, and wife Grace. The Myerses sold the house in 1914 to Henry W. Anderson, partner in Munford, Hunton, Williams, and Anderson. Anderson called upon the original architects of the house to perform interior alterations in 1914.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Originally (early 1900's) the toll for this bridge across the James was five cents, and the name stuck even though the toll has increased.

Photographed 1994 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

The Old Stone House - The oldest house in Richmond, erected about 1685, now a reliquary for material related to the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Contributed by Darla Vanderlip

In Hollywood Cemetery. Pickett (1825-1875) Graduated last in his class at West Point, he won a brevet promotion in the Mexican War, fought Indians on the frontier. He rose to General in the Confederate States Army and is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge.

Photographed Aug 26, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

On the campus of Virginia Union University. It opened in 1899. Named after former trustee board member C. J. Pickford, It served as the original classroom building

Photographed 14 Nov 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

921 West Franklin Street. The local architect Albert F. Huntt was commissioned to design a townhouse in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. It was, like many of his neighbors' houses, built on a side-hall plan, and had a projecting semi-circular tower. Stonework for the imposing structure was executed by William Mason, of the partnership Mason & Sim, Richmond, Virginia. Stephen Putney made his fortune in the wholesale shoe business, and purchased the land from Ella Williams in May, 1894, and from Charlotte and James Kearney in June of the same year.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built as early as 1720. Edgar Allan Poe was a guest there and John James Audubon was a frequent visitor. Robert E. Lee's troops camped on the grounds during the Civil War.

Photographed August 1999 and Contributed by George Seitz

The earliest extant house on West Franklin Street. Built in 1855 for William C. Ritter, before this stretch of Franklin Street was incorporated into the city proper, the Italian villa was appropriate in its rural setting. By the turn of the century, it was well within the city limits, and its new owner, Mrs. Belle Hickok of Baltimore. After Ritter, the house was occupied by Samuel L. Harwood, then R.B. Chaffin. Hickok bought the house in 1903. This building was purchased by the Richmond Professional Institute for $17,500.00 in December of 1939. It was the sixth property acquired by the developing Institute and was initially used as a women's dormitory.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built in 1741 as part of the Henrco Parish. On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his "Liberty or Death" speech here. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were in attendance. Declaration signer George Wythe and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, Edgar's mother are buried here.

Photographed 4 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Of the Corinthian order of architecture, it was completed in 1845. While attending service on April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis was handed a dispatch from General Lee announcing the necessity for the evacuation of Richmond.

Photographed 8 Oct 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Designed by Frank E. Watson and completed in 1928. The Late Gothic Revival building is on the Virginia Landmarks Register.

Photographed 21 Jan 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz

Other names for house, Frederic W. Scott House, Scott-Bocock House. In 1893, Scott and Charles S. Stringfellow Jr. organized the firm of Scott & Stringfellow, investment bankers, which was his principal business until his death. Scott also became involved in many other business interests, eventually became a director of several of the country's largest corporations, including the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Scott was director of Merchants National Bank, which was established in 1870 by his father and grandfather. That bank was consolidated with the First National Bank in 1926 to form First and Merchants National Bank. In 1900, Scott, B.B. Munford, and Virginius Newton organized the South Atlantic Life Insurance Company, later the Atlantic Life Insurance Company. At the time of his death, Scott was a director of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, the Richmond Terminal Company, General American Investors Company, and the Atlantic Land and Improvement Company. During World War I, Scott was a member of the Division of Finance and Purchase of the United States Railway Administration

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Sign proclaiming it as a Virginia National Landmark

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

Built in 1885 at 915 West Franklin Street, for Ashton and Florine Dunlap Starke. A remodelling in 1902 by Noland and Baskervill added octagonal porch columns constructed of brownstone dies inserted between brick work. Noland and Baskervill also added another wall-dormer with pair lancet windows to match the single existing dormer set against the French roof. A flower relief plaque of molded brick is set into the front of projecting the polygonal bay. Starke, a dealer in agricultural implements, was instrumental in the success of the 1888 Virginia Exposition at Fair Grounds, and was involved in Commonwealth Club and served for 2 years as president.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh

In Hollywood Cemetery. J.E.B. Stuart (1833-1864) was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance. Nicknamed "Beauty" at West Point, he served on the frontier agains the Indians, and in Kansas during the border disturbances. He rose from Capt. to the rank of Major general in the Confederate States Army. He was mortally wounded May 11, 1864 at the battle of Yellow Tavern.

Photographed 26 Aug 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

At Lombardy and Monument Avenue. By Fred Moynihan Unveiled in 1907. It shows Stuart in a typically dashing pose.

Photographed 8 Oct 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

and the Lucky Strike tobacco factory. Many of these old buildings have been refurbished into condominiums and are very close to downtown.

Photographed 1997 and Contributed by Gill Pollard

It served as the Confederacy's foremost iron manufacturer. It is a National Historic Landmark and is now part of a museum complex.

Photographed 15 Feb 2008 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Erected in 1860, it was designed by noted Richmond architect Albert West, who was also a leading Methodist. The congregation moved to Henrico County in 1945.

Photographed 12 Nov 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

A packet boat in the turning basin in April 1864 - (see burnt buildings in background).

Contributed by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Richmond, VA

In Hollywood Cemetery. Tyler (1790-1862) was a Member of the US House of Representatives, US Senator, and Pres. pro tem, and the first man to become President (1841-1845) as a result of being VP when the sitting President (William Henry Harrison) died in office. He was also elected Member of Confederate House of Representatives. (never took seat)

Photographed Aug 26, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

Constructed from the materials of a sixteenth century English manor house, it was the home of Alexander and Virginia Weddell. Completed in 1929, it is now owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society as a museum

Photographed 10 July 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz

In Capitol Square. By Thomas Crawford. Unveiled in 1858. Jefferson Davis was inaugurated in front of the statue. It's likeness appears on the Great Seal of the Confederacy.

Photographed Sep 3, 2007 and Contributed by George Seitz.

The house appears to have entailed a modicum of Richardsonian Romanesque detail. Younger started his wholesale grocery career in the partnership Heitman & Younger, 13 South 14th Street. By the 1890s, a new firm, L.C. Younger & Co., was a subsidiary of the many Millhiser business enterprises. S.D Crenshaw, chemical mogul, hired Noland and Baskervill to update the house in 1904. The copper Greek Doric cornice and cresting was added by Noland and Baskervill. A Greek Doric limestone portico was also added at this time. A rear smoking room, added by Noland and Baskervill in 1904, consists of walls of clear leaded glass.

Photographed 6 Mar 2008 and Contributed by Paula Lucy Delosh