Sunday, May 3, 2015

So where was this house?

Built in the early 1890s, this Richmond building was demolished in the 1950s.
The image dates from the late 1940s. Where was it?

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 3, 2015 at 10:42 PM

    Franklin?

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  2. AngelaMay 4, 2015 at 7:16 AM

    Franklin Street - where the Franklin Street Gym now stands.

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  3. RayMay 4, 2015 at 10:56 AM

    We have a winner. Yes, it stood on the 800 block of W. Franklin Street on the south side of the street. The building to the right is the Ritter-Hickock House which still stands. The brownstone building in question was torn down when the Gym was expanded - the back part of the house still remains. Want to know more about this house - click here (links to an old site I created now preserved on the Internet Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20080229220524/http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/mason02.html

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  4. RayMay 4, 2015 at 10:58 AM

    Thanks to you both and Angela, you ARE a winner. :-)

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  5. HEKMay 6, 2015 at 10:39 AM

    Ochh. Heart breaking.

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