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Architecture--Virginia--Norfolk

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Bellamy Family Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-383
Scope and Contents

Four circa 1900 photographs of the Bellamy house at 712 Westover Avenue, T. Marshall Bellamy, Sr., and the Bellamy family in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: circa 1900; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Buildings (folder 1 of 2), 1919-1920, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1966-1971

 File — Folder 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents

Folder 1 of 2 containing photographs of various buildings located in the City of Norfolk.  Featured are building interiors, exteriors, panoramic views of buildings in various Norfolk neighborhoods, high-rise buildings, homes, religious buildings, commercial buildings, and recreational facilities.

Dates: created: 1919-1920, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1966-1971

Buildings (folder 2 of 2), 1972-1973, 1975, undated

 File — Folder 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents

Folder 2 of 2 containing photographs of various buildings located in the City of Norfolk.  Featured are building interiors, exteriors, panoramic views of buildings in various Norfolk neighborhoods, high-rise buildings, homes, religious buildings, commercial buildings, and recreational facilities.

Dates: created: 1972-1973, 1975, undated

C. A. Neff and T. David Fitz-Gibbon Architectural Perspective Drawing

 Collection — 1 oversized folder
Identifier: 001-MSS 2024-006
Scope and Contents

The drawing drafted by J.A. Parks depicts the Arena Stage/Center Theater complex from the northeast of an Army and Navy Recreation Building designed by architects C. A. Neff and T. David Fitz-Gibbon, circa 1941-1943.  The building is designed in the international style with some streamlined modern elements.  Construction of the building is reinforced concrete with Indiana limestone cladding and glass block fenstration arranged in vertical and horizontal ribbons.

Dates: created: 1941-1943; Other: Date acquired: 05/24/2024

City of Norfolk Department of City Planning, Norfolk, Virginia, Photographic Slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 08-0000-004
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 35mm color photographic slides documenting development projects in downtown Norfolk, Virginia and in various city neighborhoods, development planning studies and projects around the city, and planning-related maps and graphics. Some aerial photographs are included. Some slides are missing.

Dates: created: 1965-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1966-1970; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Construction, 1969, 1974, undated

 File — Folder 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

Photographs of construction projects within the City of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1969, 1974, undated

Cultural and Convention Center, Norfolk, Virginia, Construction Plans

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG 08-0000-001
Scope and Contents Construction plans for the Cultural and Convention Center (Scope Arena and Chrysler Hall theater) in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Included are original architectural drawings, copy prints of these and other architectural drawings, and engineering reports. The bulk of the materials are from 1966 and were produced by Studio Nervi, a prominent architectural and engineering firm based in Rome, Italy. Some of the copy prints were created jointly by Studio Nervi and the local Norfolk architects...
Dates: created: 1966; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000

Gresham Family Photographs

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 007-MSS 0000-597
Scope and Contents

Seven 1914-1967 photographs of homes and other buildings in Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1914-1967; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Louise Andrews Norfolk Center for Ocean Environments Architectural Records

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-012
Abstract

Contains proposals for the organization, development, design and storage for the Norfolk Center for Ocean Environments. This was a Master of Architecture thesis project at North Carolina State University.

Dates: created: 1980; Other: Date acquired: 04/03/2015

MMM Design Drawings

 Collection — 11 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-025
Scope and Contents

Various drawings, plans, and records of MMM Design, an architectural firm that operated in Norfolk from the early 1940s to 2014.

Dates: created: 1940s-2014; Other: Date acquired: 06/14/2015