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This is a decorative fashion the building shares with many houses in the surrounding Jackson Ward area it served as firehouse from 1883 to 1968. [ 3 ] Built in 1883 to continue the function of fire fighting and police station for the Jackson Ward neighborhood begun in 1849 by a previous building on the site, Steamer Company Number 5 combines ...
The son of former Virginia governor William H. Cabell, who became a judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals was an important figure in Richmond society for decades. Around the time he began to rent this house, his law partner was Virginia attorney general Sidney Smith Baxter, the grandson of former Virginia governor William Fleming, who after being defeated for re-election in 1852, moved to ...
An earlier Richmond Theatre was destroyed by fire on 23 January 1798. [4] That earlier theatre was originally known as Quesnay's Academy (short for its formal title Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences of the United States) and opened on October 10, 1786 in a performance given by the Old American Company of Comedians under the management of Lewis ...
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Six people were staying in the Palmetto Dunes neighborhood house when the fire occurred. Fire at Hilton Head home rented by tourists leaves 1 person dead, another critically injured Skip to main ...
Location of Richmond in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
In 1758, William Byrd III built his country house Belvidere on this hill, with views of the James River as well as Church Hill (Richmond, Virginia) and Shockoe Hill.Fire destroyed the house and gardens about a century later, by which time the neighborhood had transformed from an agricultural to industrial one.