#fifthstreet

[dogbonesoup]

Bench

Holga 120N + Ilford HP5 Plus

[rocketwerks]

Cokesbury Building

415 East Grace Street

Built, 1921

Architects, Carneal & Johnston

April 2020

Once there was this trendy little bookstore in the heart of the downtown shopping district.

[ADR] — Cokesbury Building in 1981

This building was built for the Methodist Publishing House and designed by Garnett & Johnston. Its design clearly is related to the Mosby Store at the corner of Jefferson and Broad Streets, by Starrett & Van Vleck.

April 2020 — showing projecting cornice

That design was, in turn, related to McKim, Mead & White's Gorham Building in New York, a modernized version of an Italianate palazzo with an arcade at the base of the building and a heavy projecting cornice at the roof.

April 2020

This design was felt to be a particularly successful blending of traditional and modern features, most appropriate for a modern shop. 

April 2020

The Cokesbury Building is designed carefully and well detailed. The first floor arcade was glazed fully, but is now closed partially.

April 2020

The interior vaulted ceilings have been removed, but the building is otherwise well preserved. The reason for the popularity of this building type is seen easily. It is simple, dignified and impressive. [ADR]

(Richmond Times Dispatch) — Cokesbury Building in 1952

The Cokesbury Building, with the Cokesbury Bookstore on the first floor, was an outgrowth of the Methodist Episcopal Book Concern. Created in 1789, this organization was established to religious materials for the Methodist church. It would eventually expand to include books and religious supplies and rebranded as the Cokesbury Press in 1925. By 2012, there would be 57 Cokesbury Book Stores nationwide, one of which used to be on Grace Street.

April 2020

But in that same year, Cokesbury announced the closure of their brick-and-mortar stores, and today they’re online only. The Grace Street location had long been abandoned by that point, having relocated to Tuckernuck Square shopping center in 1992. A loss, really. They were more than just religious books and often had unusual or hard to find titles, back in the days before Amazon.

Today, it’s the Cokesbury Building Apartments.

(Cokesbury Building is part of the Atlas RVA! Project)

Print Sources

[ADR] Architecture in Downtown Richmond. Robert Winthrop. 1982.

[designwallah]

Little Free Library on Fifth Street littlefreelibrary.org Charter Number 17856 Joan Moore, Fifth Street, Wards Island, Toronto "The Library was my birthday present from my husband"

[bonnettsbooks]

#FlashbackFriday ~25 yrs ago #WareBlock #FifthStreet #DaytonOH #OregonDistrict #blockparty captured on a #CasioQV11 #digitalcamera. 9/9/22 #BonnettsBooks Open 6-10p Mask recommended. No open drinks in the shop, please. (at Bonnett's Book Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTN2XovYUm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[26point3andbeyond]

The dirty-snow street-scape of Minneapolis on South 5th Street . #snowyday #northcoast #minneapolis #cityscape #streetscape #dirtysnow #architectureporn #tallbuildings #downtown #minnstagram #metrotransit #nicolletmall #station @theniconfifth #fridaymorning #wintermood #urbanlife #goodlife #allthingsconsidered #architecturelovers #urbanplanning #metropolis #diamondlkphotography #cityofflourandsawdust #fifthstreet #publictransit #citylife #citystreets #urban #toesgoinfirst (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

[bobdixonphotos]

B&W film photo. 1st Avenue & 5th Street. #adobe #lightroomcc #film #bwfilm #nikon #nikonfm #filmferrania #p30alpha #firstavenue #fifthstreet #lightrail #filmphotography #blackandwhitephoto #bw #urbanlandscape #minneapolis #minnstagrammers (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)

[sociallyblogwards]

#fifthstreet #bridge #tressel #railroadcrossing #traintracks #arch #greatmiamiriver #dayton #ohio #citylife #cloudy #suspensionbridge (at Dayton, Ohio)

[vezun]

2/15/18 Year of the Dog, group show

year of the dog flyer

On February 5th of 2018 the Year of the Dog group show had it’s opening reception at the Fifth Street Mayor’s Gallery in Las Vegas.  Vezun showed “別玩太多了”.

process vid

[yosoyfedert]

Fake tales of San Francisco echo through the air... #throwbackthursday . . . #sfo #fifthstreet #sanfrancisco #trip #travel #streets #sky #skyporn #clouds #igers #igersanfrancisco #perspective

[dogbonesoup]

Bench

Fujifilm Instax SQ6 + Fujifilm Instax Square film

[rocketwerks]

James Dunlop House

101 North Fifth Street

Built, 1844

Demolished, 1928

[HOR]

The house that turned into a hotel.

(Library of Congress) — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Richmond (1895) — Plate 14

On January 20, 1844 James Dunlop bought the half-acre lot, number 568, the price of $8000 proving how popular Fifth Street was at that time. This site had the further attraction of being considered the highest elevation in the city, Thomas P. Watkins, the surveyor, having built himself a small frame house there when he ascertained its unique advantage. That house was immediately demolished by Mr. Dunlop, and the mansion was built within the year.

(Find A Grave) — James Dunlop

James Dunlop (who was born in Richmond in 1801) spent the rest of his life in the house he had built. He had married Ann Dent McRae, daughter of Alexander McRae and it was in this house that the widow of Alexander McRae died. Dunlop was a partner in the ante-bellum firm of Dunlop, Moncure & Co., auctioneers and commission merchants, which was located at the northwest corner of Cary and Eleventh Streets. 

(Virginia Places) — showing Dunlop & McCance’s Mills in Manchester

After the War this firm became Dunlop & McCance and devoted itself exclusively to milling. One of the founders of St. Paul’s Church, Mr. Dunlop was a member of the vestry from 1844 until his death in 1875, at which time he was treasurer. Passing resolutions on his loss, the members of the vestry described him as “the gentle, genial, generous friend.”

(Encyclopedia Virginia) — Reverend John D. Blair, AKA Parson Blair

Mrs. Dunlop continued to live there until her death, following which it was the home for about five years of James Alfred Jones. W. Brydon Tennant owned it for a similar period, and in 1899 it was sold to Walter Blair, a grandson of Parson Blair. Mr. Blair lived there until his death, and his daughter, Miss Ellen Blair, continued to make it her home. 

(Rocket Werks RVA Postcards) — Hotel John Marshall

She sold it in 1928, and it was demolished in that year to be the site of the John Marshall Hotel.

The Dunlop house, built at the same time as the Barret house and in the main very similar to it, had several marked differences. The front porch was heavier and there were no triple windows. The chimneys were placed toward the centre of the house instead of on the outer wall, a much less awkward plan.

[HOR] — showing the portico on the garden

The chief feature of the Dunlop house was the magnificent portico in the rear, with its great columns instead of the modest square pillars of the Barret house. Although the porch had two floors, the upper one was somewhat masked so that the effect was more like the Van Lew and Hayes-McCance houses than like those being built in the years just before the Dunlop house. 

January 2020 — looking towards former 101 North Fifth Street, now The Residences at The John Marshall

The portico of the Nolting house is evidently copied from this one. The Dunlop house was beautifully kept up, to the very end, and the pearl-grey stucco and white trim, the secluded garden surrounded by its high brick wall, and the tall portico made it a place of romance and beauty. [HOR]

(James Dunlop House is part of the Atlas RVA Project)

Note

A special shout-out goes to Ray Bonis of The Shockoe Examiner and VCU's James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections & Archives fame. Ray hipped Rocket Werks to the fact that the Library of Congress had recently added digital copies of both the 1886 and 1895 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Richmond, in addition to their well-known 1905 edition. Not only are these maps a gold mine for the researcher, used here for the first time, they are also gorgeous to behold. If looking at antiquated municipal street maps is your thing. It's... not for everybody. Okay, move along!

Print Sources

[HOR] Houses of Old Richmond. Mary Wingfield Scott. 1941.

[bricehammack]

#NorthKorea #NewYorkCity #Manhattan #EastVillage #SecondAvenue #FifthStreet #Storefront #TrompeLoeil #FakeWindows #BriceDailyPhoto

[santiagohec]

A lone, random stroll down Bloomfield Ave and Fifth Street in Hoboken. #TicosPics #SantiagohecPics #NBC4NY #ABC7NY #Fox5NY #NYPIX #NJSpots #NJisBeautiful #NJShooterz #NJisntBoring #NorthJerseyAdventures #NewJersey #NJ #HudsonCounty #Hoboken #HobokenNJ #BloomfieldAve #FifthStreet #Walking #Walk #Stroll #Trees #UrbanWalk #Street

[26point3andbeyond]

Downtown . #minneapolis #fifthstreet #nicolletmall #station #dusk #cityscape #streetscape #metrotransit #onabus #looking at a #train #lightrail #springlike #melty #gross #hues #oflife #downtown #diamondlkphotography (at Nicollet Mall (Metro Transit station))

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[jwchapman13]

I'm thirsty. #guiness #goodbeer #stcharles #missouri #llywelynspub #fifthstreet http://bit.ly/2NlgJj4