Photographer

John G. Zehmer

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Publisher

Richmond (Va.). Dept. of Planning and Community Development

Date of Photograph

ca. 1978

Original Description (transcribed from book)

The windows suggest this house dates from the immediate post Civil War period. The handsome Ionic porch was added in the early twentieth century.

Original Note (transcribed from book)

The 600 Block of North Fourth Street adversely suffered from the super highways and the expanding central Richmond. A few houses have managed to survive on Fourth Street.

Area of Jackson Ward Block

600 Block North Fourth Street

Area of Jackson Ward Full Street

North Fourth Street

Area of Jackson Ward Main Street

Fourth Street

Section of Jackson Ward TOC

The Numbered Cross Streets

Type of Building

single-family dwellings

Architectural Style

Italianate (North American architecture styles)

Architectural Features

porches; Ionic order; windows

Subject

Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Pictorial works; Architecture -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Pictorial works; Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Pictorial works; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Pictorial works; Richmond (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works; Jackson Ward Historic District (Richmond, Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works

City/Location

Richmond (Va.)

Original Image Medium

Black and white photograph

Original Image Size

11.9 x 7.4 cm.

Genre

black-and-white photographs

Local Genre

photograph

Type

Still Image

Digital Format

image/jpg

Language

eng

Original Publication

Zehmer, John G., and Robert P. Winthrop. 1978. The Jackson Ward historic district. Richmond: Dept. of Planning and Community Development.

Rights

This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.

Collection

Jackson Ward Historic District

Source

626 North Fourth Street, Jackson Ward Historic District Collection, Accession #M 371, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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