C. 1890
—Historic Richmond —
This Queen Anne building is an excellent example of preserved commercial architecture with its rusticated cast block walls, plate glass windows, mansard roof, and prominent storefront. It is part of a series of historically African-American owned blocks with Caroline Welsh, a picker, Lewis Allen, a driver, and John Robinson, being its first residents. The block was abandoned in the early 1900s. After several years the Nickel Savings Bank, owned by local resident and African American Dr. Richard Tancil, bought the property and many of the surrounding buildings. The result was ultimately revitalization of the block, and the selling of the property to dentist and African American Roscoe Brown. The buildings was consistently occupied in the following years by residents Chas Bell, and Nehemiah and Mabel Whitehead, he a laborer on the C&O Railroad. This house is listed as a contributing structure to the Church Hill North Historic District on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.| HM Number | HM2GPF |
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| Placed By | The Church Hill Association |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, May 11th, 2019 at 5:03pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 286812 N 4156649 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 37.53220000, -77.41275000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 37° 31.932', W 77° 24.765' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 37° 31' 55.92" N, 77° 24' 45.9" W |
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| Closest Postal Address | At or near , , |
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