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October 15, 2007

A fairly recent history

The Virginia Film Office has a location library of shots from around the neighborhood from what appears to be the early 1990s. The set labeled Church Hill Residential (Rough) caught a bunch of building that have since been fixed up or demolished.

Click any photo to see the full panorama…

These two photos from the same intersection on M Street show a different Union Hill.

The panorama of North 23rd Street shows the houses that used to be at 1001-1005, and shows the store that was at 1097 North 23rd Street. Fairmount still has a fair amount of decay.

The panorama of the 1200 block of North 22nd Street took me a little while to recognize, I had to walk over and get evidence to finally convince myself that this was actually the same block.

This shot shows the blank field where the new BHC houses on 26th Street have been built, and the old apartments across the street.

Posted by john_m at 5:52PM under Fairmount, Union Hill, history, redevelopment | Tags: , , , , , ,

23 Responses to “A fairly recent history”

  1. posted by john_m at October 15, 2007 9:35 pm [#]:

    I found some more very interesting photos on the same site, in a set called “The Slums of Richmond, Virginia“. Two interesting finds there include a neat photo of a block of Venable Street and an *amazing* photo of Carrington and P Streets that has 2 houses that are now gone (including the house that used to be on that big triangle between 21st and 22nd!).

    I’ve put a bunch of these photos into the flickr pool.

  2. posted by Celeste at October 15, 2007 10:23 pm [#]:

    John, those are wonderful photos. I have to wonder, my former next door neighbor Ani Lytle used to take potential location shots for film productions, wonder if she took any of them….not that it would matter if she did or not, just an idle curiosity type of thing. Thanks for posting them!

    I own a couple of books of photos (and commentary) about historic Richmond architecture, done in the fifties/sixties, by Mary Wingfield Scott and one that was edited by Louise Catterall – but I’m not aware of any body of work that continues into the 1990’s. Particularly interesting since these appear to be panorama type shots, which were not done back in the earlier books, but they do capture whole blocks well.

  3. posted by Celeste at October 15, 2007 10:33 pm [#]:

    John, I finally went on the site – and they’re not labeled, hard to tell which streets are which. I could recognize a couple but that was all. (The Clay Street Market hasn’t changed much!)

    Also, looking more closely, I realized they may be panoramic shots but they’re stitched together, not taken with a panoramic camera as I’d first thought.

    If I had the time, it would be fun to try to label a bunch of them…

  4. posted by Magneto at October 16, 2007 8:59 am [#]:

    Wow, those pictures are crazy! I now live on the recently rebuilt 26th St. My house was the only surviving house on that block, though it appears to have been cut off in the one John posted above. The transformation is crazy!

  5. posted by Bill Conkle at October 16, 2007 1:38 pm [#]:

    The brick houses pictured in the top photo are 605/607 North 22nd Street. These were taken before I bought the properties in 1999. Wow, I have to agree with Magneto, the place looks entirely different today. Please note that the Skeleton of a Crepe Myrtle in front of 607 North 22nd Street miraculously came to life when I began to renovate the house. I planted a matching Crepe Myrtle in front of 605 North 22nd so they would grow together. However, the old root system kicked in on the one in front of 607 and is now 100 times bigger than the one in front of 605 North 22nd street. Strange happenings in Union Hill.

  6. posted by john_m at October 16, 2007 4:33 pm [#]:

    Jefferson Avenue (1990s?)

  7. posted by Mac the Cop at October 16, 2007 6:01 pm [#]:

    At one point, the building in the above photo was RibTown USA. That was back in 96-97 or so. I thought they had really good ribs.

  8. posted by john_m at October 16, 2007 6:29 pm [#]:

    hey magneto – didja look at the full panorama?

  9. posted by Celeste at October 16, 2007 9:45 pm [#]:

    Mac, I agree, it was a BBQ and rib place right up until around 1999 or maybe even 2000, and it had wonderful ribs and BBQ and side dishes! The people who owned it left, I think someone told me one of the owners was in a terrible car accident, involved much hospital time and money etc.

  10. posted by rm at October 16, 2007 10:35 pm [#]:

    To bad I was hoping to see my house in there. they have a picture of the church across the street with the house that is now a vacant lot next to it. This picture was taken from my front step it appears.

  11. posted by Church Hill People’s News » 7th District Mayor’s Roundtable meeting - Richmond, Virginia at October 17, 2007 9:34 pm [#]:

    [...] our priorities ought to be in the East End”. The situation is different now than they were 15 years ago. The push used to be getting the housing market going, which seems to have been fairly successful. [...]

  12. posted by Church Hill People’s News » Marshall Street before & after - Richmond, Virginia at November 2, 2007 7:44 pm [#]:

    [...] cache of photos from the Virginia Film Commission from a few weeks ago brought to light a panorama of the then-decrepit 3000 block of East Marshall. [...]

  13. posted by Cadeho at November 4, 2007 1:03 am [#]:

    I’m glad someone was out taking pics during that time. I started taking my pics in 1997 and I could only do but so much with 24 exposures. I did get two or three pics from 23rd and 24th in Fairmount and a store that used to be in a triagle on Carrington.

    The set of pics on that site doesn’t also shows Bryan and Redd Streets in Howard’s Grove. I did that area about a year ago and what a difference…

    … and people wonder why I take pictures of neighborhoods…

  14. posted by Mary at November 9, 2007 2:24 am [#]:

    Anyone know any history on the J.M Carter house @ 609 N. 25th? I can’t find anything on it!!

  15. posted by john_m at November 9, 2007 6:41 am [#]:

    609_north_25th_street.jpg

    The Richmond Esthetic Survey at the Library of Virginia has an entry for James Monroe Carter house of 1855.

  16. posted by Laura Daab at November 9, 2007 11:00 am [#]:

    I’ve got a really cool aerial photo of Church Hill North that Mike Yengling, city staff gave me when we got our designation. It’a about 18 by 24 in dimensions and probably dates to the late 50’s/60’s.

    You wouldn’t believe the difference. So many buildings have been demolished since then.

    If someone has the tech savvy to scan this large of a photo, I’d be happy to contribute it to the photo archives here on this site.

    Here’s my contact info if anyone can do that:

    laura@mysterydinner.com

  17. posted by Church Hill People’s News » as seen from above 40 years ago… - Richmond, Virginia at November 9, 2007 7:37 pm [#]:

    [...] arial photo of much of the North of Broad area from sometime in the mid-1960s. Thanks to Laura Daab for making this available. Posted at 7:37PM under Church Hill, Church Hill North, Oakwood-Chimborazo, history | Tags: [...]

  18. posted by Melinda at March 19, 2008 3:14 pm [#]:

    Union Hill was the first place A.C.O.R.N. held a “Sell-A-Bration” to bring people to the area and show the possibilities of renovation and rehabilitation. It was a sad looking area… but that was 7 or 8 years ago. We’ve come a long way.

  19. posted by Cordie at November 7, 2008 6:46 pm [#]:

    Wow . . . these pictures reminded me of some poor times living in Church Hill; I rememember many of these ruined homes – I walked these steets and road bikes in most of these areas. I lived and had friends who lived in many of these houses. Needless to say these pictures brought tears to these weary eyes today. I am glad many of the neigborhoods are being revitalized – that’s a blessing. But, I must also add that although the buildings are being revitalized in many of the areas; many of the African Amercians living there moved away as soon as they could afford the move. And, although we were very poor back then, we did not face half of the issues that the young black youth who live in Church Hill face now. We may have been poor; but we had pride, and we loved our neighbors. I don’t see that with the youth anymore. . . I’m afraid for my son because we now live in Church Hill again. It’s so scary; it’s so sad. BTW, where do the white children go to school who live in Church Hill? Perhaps my next investment will be transferring to whereever that is(although it will leave me with no personal luxuries I’m sure); because he certainly can’t learn at the school he’s attending now – the only public highschool in Church Hill.

    I suppose enough tears and rambling for today . . . It just brought back memories of better days . . . when the corner stores were owned by our neighbors . . and all respected all…

  20. posted by Carolyn Taylor at August 13, 2009 7:38 am [#]:

    Anyone remember EDloe’s pharmacy 26 & P street,O B’s Grill & Boys Club(700 block 25th Street),Orange Front Store 28th & N street,J Andrew Bowler School (600 N 26th Street),East End Theater(400 Block North 25th Street),Mr.Lonnie’s snow cones,Bridge that started at Princess Park and traveled to then MCV/EG Williams hospital ( Walked that bridge often going to Lowes & Capital Theater on East Broad Street),Feeding the birds at Capital Square.,Ikes Shrimp House(31st & P Street) Those were the days..

  21. posted by cordieb at August 14, 2009 3:01 am [#]:

    Carolyn, I remember all that girlfriend! Those were the days!!! If any one has any pics of that bridge that started at Princess Ann Park and traveled to MCV (We called it the Vadoc) I’ld love to see them. Nice memories, Carolyn. Took me waaaaaaaaay back! LoL :) Peace, Light and Love to you and yours. . C.

  22. posted by Eric S. Huffstutler at August 14, 2009 1:50 pm [#]:

    For anyone interested, the original Film Office links in the top and post#1 from 2007, have changed. They are now here (their site can be confusing):

    Church Hill (Rough):

    http://va.reel-scout.com/loc_detail.aspx?id=77&g=&cid=9

    Richmond- Distressed Area:

    http://va.reel-scout.com/loc_detail.aspx?id=3942&g=&cid=9

  23. posted by tony at November 6, 2009 12:42 pm [#]:

    Hey carolyn i remember orange front store on 28 street i lived on 27 street.I also remember that bridge my mother walked it a lot to take us to mcv.
    I went to bowler and george mason my teacher at george mason was name miss simpson


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