Monday, September 26, 2011

Name this Richmond street.


What Richmond street is this?  Time period?  What is the building on the left? What is the church building on the right?

- Ray

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It is Broad Street, from about 1910, with what is now Old City hall on the left. Broad Street Methodist Church on the right.

6 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 26, 2011 at 5:07 PM

    Old City Hall, Broad St. Hard to tell the time period -- maybe turn of the century? Not sure about the church!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    The church is the Broad Street Methodist Church designed by Albert West in 1858-59.I would guess the photo was taken between 1940 and 1900.

    Bob Winthrop

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  3. Shockoe Examiner Staff - see bottom of blog entry for the specific author.September 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    Tess and Robert were right. Robert is a Richmond architectural historian so it is a given he'd get it right and he wrote a book called Architecture in Downtown Richmond in 1982.

    :-)

    Thanks Tess and Robert.

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  4. UnknownSeptember 28, 2011 at 12:31 PM

    :) The part I got was easy -- Old City Hall is unmistakeable. Do you know when the photo was taken?

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  5. Ray BonisOctober 1, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    Tess - I think the photo dates from the 1910s - by 1920 the steeple on the church was gone. Also, the image is from an old postcard that appears to be from the 1910s (I wrote a book on Richmond architecture using old postcards and this seems to fit that decade - the 1910s - perfectly. Plus, no automobiles - by the 1920s you see many more than the decade before.

    I'll post another mystery image next week.

    - Ray

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  6. UnknownOctober 1, 2011 at 4:01 PM

    Thanks! I love these.

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