abandoned richmond

Love exploring new spots again! This was a dirty one. 

Dirty Ol’ South

Central National Bank, May 2011

Abandoned Richmond: Blog of the Month

thisisrva:

This is a new part of This is RVA, and here is my first approval of a blog.

Abandoned Richmond is a blog showing the urban exploration of several abandoned areas throughout RVA. Check it out!

big ups to thisisrva for featuring us as (their FIRST EVER) Blog of the Month!

hugel:

The Vacancy Project opens Friday 4/9 in RVA

engagethinking:

The Vacancy Project

April 8th, 2011 @ 7PM

Central National Bank Building

219 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23241

Visit Richmond’s vacant Central National Bank Building to experience a series of light and sound installations throughout the building. The project hopes to creatively address and affect the issue of over 2,400 vacant buildings in the city.

The VACANCY Project is a collaboration between sculptor Joshua Bennett and sound artist John Dombroski.

Josh Bennett is a good friend of ours, and we’re so excited to see this installation!

(via hugel)

Fulton Gas Works, Fulton Hill. January 2010.

In Spanish, it reads “No one can open seeds in the heart of dreams.”

Fulton Gas Works, Fulton Hill. January 2010.

Graffiti, Fulton Gas Works, Fulton Hill. January 2010.

Gorgeous, color-saturated graffiti in Fulton.

spent allllll day yesterday re-exploring Fulton Gasworks for a photoshoot with some local Richmond musicians, and got some great shots on the side as well!

we’re also planning explorations of some new spots, and re-explorations of old favorites… a bus depot, an industrial bakery, maybe some warehouses around town, and another look at the abandoned movie theater we’ve posted some photos of in the past. any other ideas for places we can poke around in? let us know!

Late afternoon at Fulton Gas Works, Fulton Hill. January 2010.

Found notebook paper with writing. Fulton Gas Works, Fulton Hill. January 2010.

This piece of notebook paper covered in writing was found by what was obviously a vagrant’s sleeping area. Most of it is unintelligible, some of it makes an odd sort of sense - just not in connection with anything else on the page.

Hotel John Marshall renovations under way

According to this article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, construction has begun on this landmark downtown building. This place has been abandoned for as long as I can remember, and it’s fantastic to see that (at least somewhat) historically-accurate renovations are being done on it, rather than a straight demolition and new build. 

I am a bit bummed I never got a chance to explore it, but I was always pretty sketched out by the fact that I’m pretty sure it had a large population of homeless people and/or junkies, who I didn’t really want to run into while toting my very expensive looking camera. 

Did anyone ever get in there and take pictures? 

fuckyeahghosttowns:

Eggleston Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.
(via John Petrenko)

The hotel was opened in the late 1930’s by Neverett A. Eggleston Sr. For decades, The Eggleston Hotel was one of only three in the city that permitted black guests. Its restaurant, called Neverett’s Place, would become a popular dining spot and gathering place. Count Basie and Louis Armstrong were among the black luminaries who spent the night at theEggleston. The hotel was abandoned in the late 1990’s.

The building was badly deteriorated, including major structural problems with the roof and one wall. Developer Kelvin Hanson wanted to renovate the hotel into eight apartments and 3000 square feet of retail space when in April 2009 the building partially collapsed and the fire department decided to demolish the hotel for safety reasons.

Submission by johnpetrenko.

another beautiful photo by johnpetrenko.

fuckyeahghosttowns:

Eggleston Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.
(via John Petrenko)

The hotel was opened in the late 1930’s by Neverett A. Eggleston Sr. For decades, The Eggleston Hotel was one of only three in the city that permitted black guests. Its restaurant, called Neverett’s Place, would become a popular dining spot and gathering place. Count Basie and Louis Armstrong were among the black luminaries who spent the night at the Eggleston. The hotel was abandoned in the late 1990’s.

The building was badly deteriorated, including major structural problems with the roof and one wall. Developer Kelvin Hanson wanted to renovate the hotel into eight apartments and 3000 square feet of retail space when in April 2009 the building partially collapsed and the fire department decided to demolish the hotel for safety reasons.

Submission by johnpetrenko.

simply stunning. I wish I’d had a chance to explore this place before it collapsed! 

(for those curious, the Eggleston Hotel was in the Jackson Ward area, at the corner of 2nd & Leigh)