November 17, 2007
Venable and Tulip (date unknown)
The Built in America collection, part of the American Memory from the Library of Congress, has more than 350,000 photos, drawings, and records documenting “achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States”.
From the Built in America site:
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Administered since 1933 through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the private sector, ongoing programs of the National Park Service have recorded America’s built environment in multiformat surveys comprising more than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.
This online presentation of the HABS/HAER collections includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials. Since the National Park Service’s HABS and HAER programs create new documentation each year, digital images will continue to be added to the online collections. The first phase of digitization of the Historic American Engineering Record collection was made possible by the generous support of the Shell Oil Company Foundation.
This photo dates from about 1936 when HABS started working in Richmond. By 1940 the storefront had been built out and a corner door was added. There is a picture of the addition in Mary Wingfield Scott’s book, OLD RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOODS, on page 61.
Bill, my thanks to you and John for a photo and history about my house I had not had. I’ve got several pictures, including that in Scott’s book, but I’d never seen it without the storefront (except when a car hit the house and all that part of the front collapsed).
Thanks Ann. The place is looking mahvelous. You are an amazing being, both activitist and preservationist, with a spunky twist of cool. Peace.
Ann, ever think about repainting that sign that is shown on the side of the house in this picture? Also, I’ve been curious about the patch of camouflage that is currently painted on the corner of the restored corner extension. Care to fill us in?
Stephen, I have thot about repainting the sign but there’s nothing left of it to go by except side views like this one. Be an interesting project. As for the patch of colors, they are tests for the house. I’m going with the smaller cluster of brown shades. In fact I’ve begun with a tinted primer that the two main tones can go over.
I like the camouflage look:)