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CAD Drawings of Cathedral Row
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Gilbert J. Hunt, Revisited
As I was driving home from VCU I stopped to snap a picture of a chimney that caught my eye. Last fall I worked on a project - a row of townhomes at the 800 block of South Cathedral Place. By examining a number of clues, I ended up suggesting that it was likely that [...]
Shafer’s Row History and Architectural Catalogue
Here I'll share Appendix A from the research paper on 811-819 South Cathedral Place, in Richmond, Virginia. It covers the 5 unit row and a history of events, residents and ownership from construction to VCU acquisition. Also included is a narrative description of each unit's architectural details.
Cathedral Row, Richmond VA: The Movie!
Here is the presentation I gave to my group after finishing the project.
The Paper
Please see below for the title page, table of contents and main body of the paper.
Gilbert J. Hunt makes headlines, 1901
Although we know that Gilbert J. Hunt was responsible for many handsome residences in the lower Fan area and that it is looking more and more like he was the man responsible for the 811-819 Floyd Avenue row, he was also building in other parts of town. An article on April 28, 1901 in Richmond's [...]
Narrowing down the builders
Just as an exercise in considering and narrowing down the possibilities, I made this chart recently. There certainly could be more names to consider, but I started with the most relevant possibilities. The men I considered mainly include builders mentioned in Drew Carneal's Richmond's Fan District, builders identified in the 1985 Historic District Nomination form [...]
Land transactions between Shafer and Hunt
Got back from the circuit court records room a little while ago, and although I did not find the rosetta stone I was hoping for, I did learn that there was a history of substantial business transactions between John C. Shafer and Gilbert J. Hunt in the conveyance of undeveloped land tracts. After a successful [...]
Suspicions on the builder
Headed back to the city record room to see what can be find about the sale of 901 Floyd Street from Shafer to Gilbert J. Hunt, a prominent building contractor of the period. I'm wondering if there may have been some sort of a deal worked out for the land in exchange for Hunt's services [...]
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