Oregon Hill resident gives eye-witness details on Canal Wall demolition
“Approaching the site from the west, at around 2 pm. on Oct. 16th, I encountered a small “Bobcat” type bulldozer demolishing the last few feet of the wall.
View ArticleShockoe Hotels Break Ground
Ben Howerton, chair of the board of the First Freedom Center, thanks Apple REIT, Knight and Mayor Dwight Jones, “who assisted us with all the maneuvers — not maneuvers,” he corrects himself, as the...
View ArticleProtect legacy of Westhampton School
In exchange for its sponsorship money, Bon Secours is getting a 60-year lease, for $5,000 a year, on about 4 acres of the Westhampton School property at Libbie and Patterson avenues so it can build a...
View ArticleWhat’s Up in the Bottom?
Partnership for Smarter Growth asked the question and gave the answer, I’m just here to report what they said. This year’s annual River City Saunter was entitled “What’s Up in the Bottom?” and it was...
View ArticleWesthampton School, The Redskins & Bon Secours
I’ll take another slight jump into politics on this blog by saying that I’m not a fan of the deal the city is offering the Redskins and Bon Secours for the proposed Redskins training facility
View ArticleA Cross-Section of the Canal
…Venture Richmond’s proposed plan to slice off 5-6 feet from the top of the south bank of the canal would definitely damage the integrity of the canal by slicing into the important clay liner of the...
View ArticleVinyl windows land Richmond homeowner in trouble with law
Council chambers were packed from floor to the back door Monday night. A crowd so big expressed sentiments just as large about their historic community pains, in this case, window panes specifically....
View ArticleCouncil punts in window dispute
For nearly two hours Monday night, Richmond’s City Council wrestled with a request pushed by the council president to reverse a decision by the city’s Commission of Architectural Review related to...
View ArticleLetter to City Council On Historic Canal
I hope that the Richmond City Council will be inspired by this edition of the “Tiller” to pass a resolution calling for Venture Richmond to fully protect the canal when building an amphitheater on the...
View ArticleInvestigation of canal wall destruction questioned
Second request sent to Police Chief Tarasovic seeking information about status of canal wall destruction investigation. Link
View ArticleHOLMBERG: Historic canal wall must go back up, but why did it come down?
What remains a mystery – almost nine months later – is why any of the pre-Civil War wall was taken down and who hired the contractor, J. A. Liesfield of Rockville, to do the demolition on October 16th,...
View ArticleKanawha Canal Controversy Keeps on Rollin’
Last year, a large section of the historic Kanawha Canal came down during construction of the new 2nd Street connector. Was it an accident? Was it under orders from one of the various organizations or...
View ArticleOpen Source RVA And Time Line On Canal Wall Controversy
In addition, here is a timeline on the canal wall controversy: Link
View ArticleCity Council rejects vinyl window request for Monument Avenue homeowner
In a special meeting, the City Council voted 6-3 to deny a request to amend an opinion from the city’s Commission of Architectural Review that the replacement windows at 2916 Monument Ave. did not meet...
View ArticleDueling Maps of the Towpath
Disproving Berry’s assertion is the 1848 plat of Lewis Harvie’s property on file at the Henrico Courthouse (Plat 3-417), which is far more detailed than the Morgan map cited by Berry. Link
View ArticleRemoval of Landmark organ strikes a passionate chord
Samuels was told by the administration that the approval for removal came from Richmond CAO Byron Marshall, who was at the time unaware of the organ controversy. Link
View ArticleHistoric canal complicates Tredegar amphitheater plans
One of Richmond’s premier public events is bumping up against preservation of one of the city’s most fragile historical assets, with the scenic downtown James River shoreline as the battlefield. Link
View ArticleLandmark’S Organ OK
Mooney and C.T. Hill, the former SunTrust chief executive who is in charge of operations during the Landmark renovation, said moving the instrument was always part of the plan for the four-stage...
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Was historic wall ‘mistakenly’ demolished for new city amphitheater?
New plans for a large, new amphitheater near Richmond’s riverfront don’t show a 100-foot-long, pre-Civil War brick wall that was “mistakenly” taken down – a wall on the shoulder of George...
View ArticleRichmond planners issue positive report on amphitheater plan
But civic leaders and preservationists in adjacent Oregon Hill continue to raise concerns about the plan, which would narrow the more than 200-year-old canal and towpath from their current dimensions,...
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