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Then and now on 21st Street
08/23/2017 4:45 PM by John M
The 300 block of 21st Street. NOW is from this morning, THEN is from August 1985 via the VCU Libraries’ Richmond Commission of Architectural Review Slide Collection
The house to the far left is from the past few years, as is the house to the far right. This is the first photo I’ve ever seen of the commercial building at the far corner.
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300 block of 21st Street (1985)
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300 block of 21st Street (2017)
The commercial building in the upper corner was built in the 1890’s as a drug store. I had an old medicine bottle from there that is now in the Valentine Museum collections. It was vacant for many years before being torn down in the 1990’s.
The loss of the commercial/mixed use building is a shame, though it otherwise looks better (I don’t know… you can tell the houses have been fixed up but they’ve also seem to have lost some of the millwork/gingerbread on the front porches?) Anyway, is there an empty lot on that corner now, or what?
@Lee – new construction house came in maybe mid-2000s?
The houses that flank both ends of this block are new construction…and it shows. They are cheap looking wanna bees. I wish builders in this area would stop trying to replicate 19th century architecture when their execution is such a miss.
Did the home on the left make their windows smaller? I hate that. It made much more sense before.
Kay9
Both of those houses are very nice inside and out! And that is someone’s house you are describing as “cheap” How rude…
I previously owned the house on the right — it is a very nice house. I didn’t have to deal with any of the “old house issues” that often come with 100 year old homes. Would certainly buy it again — the views were excellent.
No surprised-face emojis here. Kay9 says a lot of rude and ignorant stuff on CHPN, apparently without putting much thought and/or care into how it may affect other people. He also likes to deny the existence of institutional racism and stir up unrelated, heated conversations for his entertainment. It’s part of his shtick, but he rarely bases his arguments in fact and frequently denies even the most straightforward examples provided to counter his rabblerousin’.