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Sunday, July 26, 2015

So - where in Richmond does this image show and can you give a circa date?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: That's the Upper Lofts building on Cary Street in Shockoe Bottom in the background. Use to be Phillip Morris warehouse.; July 27, 2015 at 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Not Upper Lofts, but close. Looks like Lucky Strike over near Pear Street in the Bottom. Is that Cary?; July 27, 2015 at 5:39 PM
georgeglass said...: This looks to me like it was in Manchester at Hull Street looking away from downtown with the Cauthorne building in the background. If I had to guess, maybe this was in the 40's?? It looks like the cafe may have been The Manchester Cafe??; July 29, 2015 at 7:26 AM
Shockoe Examiner Staff - see bottom of blog entry for the specific author. said...: GeorgeGlass knows Richmond. Thanks all of you who responded - see the next blog entry for the full info. on this image.; August 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM

Contributors:

Ray Bonis:

Ray worked at VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library from 1989 until 2021. He is the co-author of Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and Greetings from Richmond (2009) - an architectural history of the city.

Selden Richardson:

Architectural historian and author of Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (2006), The Tri-State Gang in Richmond: Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression. (2012), and Richmond Murder & Mayhem (2023)

On History:

"The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow."
-- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) from his "Autobiography of an Historian," An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

Key Dates in Richmond History
(more to follow)

1737 – William Mayo laid out the original street plan for the town of Richmond on land provided by William Byrd II.

1742 – Chartered as a town

1780 – Virginia’s state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

1782 – Incorporated as a city.

1788 - Virginia State Capitol building completed.

1860-1865 – Serves as capital of the Confederate States of America.

1910 - Manchester, the city located just south of the James, is consolidated with Richmond.

1949 - Oliver Hill (1907-2007) elected to City Council, first African American since Reconstruction.

1968 - Virginia Commonwealth University created by the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute.

1977 - Henry Marsh elected as first African American mayor of Richmond.

2009 – Shockoe Examiner founded.