Water Main Break Yesterday
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Laurel Street
Looks like a beautiful late fall day on the 400 block of S. Laurel Street.
Rain coming Sunday though…
Violins, violins, violins This Sunday
From the St. Andrew’s School FaceBook page:
Violins, violins, violins – we just can’t get enough! Our small Ensemble group will play during the 11:00am service at St. Andrew’s Church this Sunday. 236 South Laurel Street – right next door to the school. Come on out and support our musicians!
Destruction of Private Property On 300 Block of S. Laurel
From RAIDSonline.com:
DESTRUCTION PROPERTY/PRIVATE PROPERTY
3XX S LAUREL ST
Nov 17, 2014 at 10:00 amData provided by Richmond Police Department
Community Light Parade and InLight on Friday
From this week’s Style magazine:
Coinciding with 1708 Gallery’s annual InLight Richmond public exhibition of light-based art, the Community Lantern Parade will illuminate Monroe Park on Friday, Nov. 21. The community art project, curated by Denise Markonish from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, will feature performances, sculpture, large-format projections and interactive projects by artists and collectives from across the country. It will turn the five-sided park into an incandescence hub of visual activity. Best of all, along with projects by the Daily Planet, Art on Wheels and Art 180, you can bring your own lantern to join the fun. The free, family-friendly florescent festivities run from at 7 to midnight.
For more information, visit 1708 Gallery’s webpage by clicking here.
Miss Boyd and The Salvation Army Hall
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:
2015 Elby Restaurant Award Nominations
Richmond.com has an article on the 2015 Elby Award Nominations…
For those who don’t know, The Elbys are Richmond’s most prestigious restaurant industry award, which honors “excellence in the Richmond region’s restaurant community.”
(BTW, I’ve confirmed – it’s Elbys, no apostrophe. The Elby Awards, named for Chef Paul Elbling of the former La Petite France, AKA Elbys.)
Started by Richmond Magazine in 2011, this award is the top honor a Richmond restaurant can get, and the annual award ceremony is a must-attend event for anyone involved in Richmond dining.
L’Opossum was nominated for Best New Restaurant, while Mamma’Zu was nominated for a new category, Richmond Stalwart.
Missing Richmond Exhibit
Artist Caryl Burtner, an inveterate collector of quotidian objects, here brings us in “Missing Richmond” views of the city and its environs that some newcomers may have never seen. These photographs and memories can be experienced in the Wilton Companies Gallery of UR Downtown — in the former offices of Franklin Federal Savings & Loan. The show is part of the Tucker-Boatwright Festival for Literature and the Arts organized by the Department of Art and Art History, in collaboration with University Museums.
Burtner utilizes antique and contemporary photographs, some of which are enlarged to the size of paintings, and meticulously archived pieces and chips of structures, to display some of the structures that we are now deprived of, and the changing character of standing buildings. The exhibition comes at a full moment of Richmond recollecting its stories.
This includes now ‘missing’ parts of Oregon Hill:
Roundabout Proposal Goes To Planning Commission On Monday
The Planning Commission will meet on Monday, November 17, at 1:30 pm in the 5th Floor Conference Room at City Hall. On the agenda is the final location, character, and extent review of the proposed roundabout for Idlewood Avenue between Oregon Hill and Randolph.
Please click here and here for previous posts on the roundabout project.
Car Break In Report
Editor’s note: I have been having difficulty receiving crime reports for the last week or so. I did reach out to Lt. Davenport from the Richmond Police Department and he did give me an update on car-break-ins:
From Lt. Davenport:
In regards to the car break-ins, there have been four reported in the last 30 days to RPD occurring in Oregon Hill. Three of those four involved unlocked motor vehicles and no property damage. The fourth was reported as locked and there was no property damage in that one either. These crimes have been curtailed for most of the year; however, I’ve seen an increase over the last month. I have 26 total vehicle break-ins occurring in Sector 413 last month with 65% of those involving vehicles that were unlocked.
Also, I will mention that Councilperson Parker Agelasto’s assistant Ida Jones posted this on his FaceBook:
5th District Residents we hear your concerns regarding leaf collection and we’re trying to get answers as fast as we can. Once we have a written statement from DPW (Department of Public Works) we will share. Thanks for your patience and understanding. ~ Ida Jones