GCCR is proud to announce that the exhibit Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 � 1945, on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be on display in our Gallery beginning September 19th, 2010. The story of what happened to homosexuals in Nazi Germany is the subject of the exhibition, which was more than ...
We got a reader request yesterday to find this house: The house is a Sears Alhambra kit house, sold between 1915 and 1920 from the Sears Modern Home mail order catalogue. About.com has the original sales sheet wich is super interesting and worth a read. Some of the highlights of the original home: Eight rooms A large brick ...
The Richmond History Center leads many walking tours around the city with several in the Northside. Saturday’s tour will focus on Barton Heights and will be lead by RHC director Bill Martin. This tour focuses on historic commercial and retail activity along North Avenue and Brookland Park Boulevard. Established in 1889 as an early streetcar suburb, ...
The Barton Mansion (aka “Corner Minor”) located at 2112 Monteiro Street and an adjacent historic house at 2204 Monteiro Street are available for sale as a package. Because of the significant architecture and history of these Barton Heights houses, the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods has joined the effort to find ...
Phil Riggan’s blog has a well thought piece up about getting Lewis Ginter a statue somewhere on the Northside. His three suggestions for locations: Hermitage Road and Bellevue & Pope avenues Brookland Parkway, Loxley Road and Rennie Avenue Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road He’s even got a little bit of a cost breakdown. Go read the whole post! ...
The Richmond History Center has posted their schedule of walking tours with several in the area: May 8th: Barton Heights June 6th: Ginter Park August 7th: Bellevue September 8th: Hounds of History — Ginter Park ...
Barton Heights began as a real estate development project in the fall of 1880s, one of several contemporary efforts to create new suburban towns just outside the Richmond city limits in Henrico County. ...
Our representative down at the General Assembly, Jennifer McClellan, is sponsoring a bill to commend the Ginter Park Residents Association on its 100 year anniversary (last year, its inception was 1909). Some quotes from the bill: WHEREAS, Ginter Park was conceived and planned by Major Lewis W. Ginter, a Richmond industrialist and entrepreneur, in the late ...
On Monday, February 8, the second in a series of community conversations to discuss the Future of Richmond’s Past will be held at Union-PSCE from 7-9 p.m. in Lake Chapel. bq. A brief program will focus on “The History and Creation of the Black Church,” and the majority of the evening will be devoted to ...
Following last week’s profile of the Chestnut Hill/Plateau Historic District, next up in our series of local histories is a look at the Highland Park Plaza Historic District. ...
Among the many sites and districts in Richmond listed on the National & State registries is the Chestnut Hill/Plateau Historic District (PDF). ...