"New View of A Western Section of Richmond..." - 1906 view of the Fan with Richmond College in Background.

"New View of A Western Section of Richmond Which Has Recently Built Up By Leaps and Bounds" - The Photograph Which Is Produced Here, Was Taken from the Roof of the Chesterfield at Shafer and Franklin Streets.

- From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 25, 1906.

Now this is a View!  105 years ago.  Not a clear image - but about the only one I have come across showing Richmond College (the big building on the right) and its orientation facing downtown.

Click on the image to see a larger view. See the entire article HERE (the article continues on this page). From Chronicling America. 

- Ray B.

1902 view of the Chesterfield Apartment Building, 900 block of W. Franklin St.

From the July 10, 1902 issue of the Richmond Times.

[click on image above for a much larger view]

The seven-story Chesterfield Apartment building was completed in 1903. It was the first high-rise apartment building built in Richmond. Built of brown brick over a steel frame, the building was designed by the Muhlenburg Brothers firm of Pennsylvania and supervised locally by architects Noland and Baskervill.

[The text of the article - click for larger view]

See the entire issue HERE.

- Ray B.