The neighborhood trash situation is looking pretty good these days overall (compared to some other days), thanks to recent efforts.
(And please don’t forget about the cleanup tomorrow!)
But this poor tree, along Belvedere near the Overlook, for some reason is a trash magnet:
From RAIDSonline.com:
HIT AND RUN
5XX N BELVIDERE ST
Mar 1, 2015 at 2:20 am
Data provided by Richmond Police DepartmentHIT AND RUN
7XX S BELVIDERE ST
Mar 1, 2015 at 9:10 am
Data provided by Richmond Police DepartmentHIT AND RUN
1XX S BELVIDERE ST
Mar 1, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department
Appreciation again for our Councilperson Parker Agelasto and his wonderful assistant Ida Jones. Thanks to them, a new trashcan has been installed at Idlewood Avenue at Belvidere. This was one that Oregon Hill neighbors had been requesting for sometime (See ‘#9’). When the City’s Department of Public Works told them there was no money in the budget to install new trashcans, Parker and Jones transferred money from the 5th District Discretionary funds to pay for them. These funds typically support communication and community outreach efforts such as National Night Out. In this instance they decided it was important to pay for a City operation.
From RAIDSonline.com:
WEAPON LAW VIOLATIONS, CONCEALED WEAPON
5XX S BELVIDERE ST
Feb 19, 2015 at 7:45 amData provided by Richmond Police Department
From RAIDSonline.com:
FORGERY/COUNTERFEITING/ALL OTHER
8XX W CARY ST
Jan 18, 2015 at 7:20 am
Data provided by Richmond Police DepartmentTHEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
1XX N BELVIDERE ST
Jan 18, 2015 at 10:21 am
Data provided by Richmond Police DepartmentHIT AND RUN
1XX S LINDEN ST
Jan 19, 2015 at 7:50 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department
From RAIDSonline.com:
WEAPON LAW VIOLATIONS
7XX S BELVIDERE ST
Jan 8, 2015 at 3:45 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department
From RAIDSonline.com:
ROBBERY/CARJACKING
2XX S BELVIDERE ST
Nov 28, 2014 at 5:00 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department
There was recently an estate sale for The Oaks, a house in Windsor Farms…
From the sale description:
The Oaks, one of Richmond’s most historic and unique homes, was built in Amelia County around 1745. It took English craftsmen and native labor three years to construct. All of the bricks were handmade on the property. The wood was cut on the estate and allowed to season for a year before construction began. This remarkable architectural gem might not have survived to the present day had it not been for the vision and determination of Richmonder Lizzie Edmunds Boyd, who had the house moved to Richmond’s Windsor Farms in 1927 by train. Its faithfulness to the original structure is testimony to the care with which it was taken down and reconstructed. Miss Boyd was far ahead of her time as a preservationist, a community activist and philanthropist, as well as a serious collector of early furniture. While she was sponsoring Richmond’s first soup kitchen on Oregon Hill and helping found the Community Foundation, she found time to fill The Oaks with a notable collection of early American and English antiques.
It sounds like this soup kitchen may have been based in the building that appears in a Times Dispatch photograph (click here for link to RTD archives blog).
Reverend Abbott Bailey at St. Andrew’s Church was able to find out more from one of the church elders, Cyrus Field… “It was located at Maiden Lane and Belvidere Sts. This was beside St Andrews Mission, which was [the church’s] original Parish House, moved from the Baldwin Hall Location.” It was directly opposite of the house his wife Ellen grew up in.”
Neighbor Charles Pool located what he believes is the building on the 1905 Sanborn map:
This photo appeared on the Visual and Vintage Virginia FaceBook group page:
There was a bad accident Sunday morning shortly after 8 am at the corner of Idlewood and Belvidere.
Paraphrased from a neighbor:
One of the officers on the scene said it was the result of a high speed chase with the suspect apprehended. The officer said the motorist had also struck a bicyclist further west of Oregon Hill. 3-4 cars were involved in the accident, with 2 people taken away in ambulances (the suspect presumably being one of them). There was also speculation from onlookers that the suspect was either mentally unstable or drugs were involved.