Balding Street (1954)
Black and white photograph of houses on Balding Street in the East End of Richmond; image shows several homes set on a hill.
This photo is from the Valentine Richmond History Center Collections Database, and is credited to Richmond Newspapers, Inc. (December 1954).
Balding street… looks correct, no paint on the buildings :-)
Boy the city was in general a mess when you start looking at pictures between the 1920-1950s but from what I had read was in decline right after the Civil War.