Another history snapshot from Bill Hartsock:
The picture was taken around 1927 of the residents of the house at 2700 East Broad Street. It was a boarding house, owned by the Methodist Church, known as the Wilson Inn and housed single women that had moved to Richmond for work. The woman on the left was the matron (a dower old soul if ever there was one!). She ran the place and supervised the women. The Wilson Inn moved to Monument Avenue in the early 1930’s because they ran out of space at 2700.
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Would never have known. Learn something new every day!
I have said, still maintain, and hoping that someone will take on the challenge and write a comprehensive book about Church Hill North. And it would truly be a challenge because no one has ever attempted it before due to the lack of archival materials. Few to no photographs of any age exist at museums for structures in the area – including Shed Town. It was like Broad Street had an invisible wall down the middle , an Iron Curtain of sorts and the two sides were never to mingle. The “other side” of that fence was deliberately overlooked due to demographics even if some of the oldest properties in Richmond are there. Personal ideologies agendas and gentrification issues still exist to some extent today between NOB and SOB.
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My mother lived at Wilson Inn for several years and her wedding reception was held there on November 30, 1946.
The inn was still on Broad Street at that time so the date for moving it to Monument Avenue is incorrect in the article above.
Lived in Wilson Inn back in the 80’s while attending college in Richmond, Va.
I lived on Momument Avenue location.
I was there in 80’s or 90’s. It was nice. I cooked Thanksgiving dinner…2 twenty pound turkeys, which turned out good! The height of my glory then, but i was so glad they turned out, cooked very slowly, I think I put them on about 2:30 am about 275 degrees if i remember correctly. It was tender and moist and I think we ate around noonish or an hour or so later. I remember 2 ovens, but I could be wrong. I think it was 2 turkeys
I could be wrong about that too. Memory not in too good of shape; I thought 2 turkeys, 2 ovens? God bless you all!