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Historic buildings--Virginia--Norfolk

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Edmonia Lee Whittle Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-082
Scope and Contents One mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century scrapbook containing clippings, genealogical information, and other materials related to the Whittle family, Christ Church, and Christ and Saint Luke's Church in Norfolk, Virginia. Handwritten genealogies trace the ancestry of several prominent connected Norfolk families, including Calvert, Dabney, Neilson, Page, and Walke. The scrapbook traces the Whittle family genealogy to Pocahontas. Much of the loose materials from the scrapbook relate to the...
Dates: created: 1860-1965, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/18/1997
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Feasibility Study of Restoration of Flag Officer's Quarters

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-176
Scope and Contents One circa 1975-1976 feasibility study for the restoration of flag officers' quarters at the naval station in Norfolk, Virginia. These homes were built for the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, and the study documents the history and design of the 17 buildings, along with recommendations for restoration. The study includes photographs and architectural drawings of the homes. The study was conducted by Spigel, Carter, Zinkl, Herman, Architects, with Craig & Stroud, Ltd., Structural Engineers;...
Dates: created: circa 1976; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

First Lutheran Church Collection

 Collection — 5 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2017-034
Scope and Contents

Pamphlets, anniversary programs, and other ephemera relating to the history of First Lutheran Church on Colley Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1894-2005; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/2017
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Frances Calvert Stansbury Scrapbooks

 Collection — 5 boxes
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-073
Scope and Contents

Six 1930s-1960s scrapbooks featuring social events including engagements, weddings, parties, graduation commencements, debutant debuts, funerals, and other activities in and around Norfolk, Virginia. Most of the materials date between 1951 and 1955.

Dates: created: 1927-1962; Other: Date acquired: 06/00/1972
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Grace O. Cornick Scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-212
Scope and Contents Five circa 1960s-1970s scrapbooks compiled by Grace O. Cornick of Norfolk, Virginia. Scrapbooks 1-4 contain articles written by Cornick on various Norfolk history topics, including churches, hospitals, city government, schools, and historic houses and buildings. Scrapbook 5 contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs relating to Epworth United Methodist Church in Norfolk, Virginia. There are also "notes," both handwritten and typed articles, written by Cornick that appear in Scrapbooks...
Dates: created: 1930-1931, 1949, 1953-1983, 2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1960s-1970s; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Hampton Roads History Clippings Scrapbook

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-104
Scope and Contents

One scrapbook of late-20th century to early-21st century Virginian-Pilot newspaper clippings featuring photographs from various parts of the Hampton Roads region in Virginia. The photographs usually include brief captions and cover the cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake. Subject matter includes streets, buildings, transportation, weather, and sports.

Dates: created: circa 2000s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jim Bradshaw Norfolk Memorabilia Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2015-019
Scope and Contents Maps, books, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, souvenir artifacts, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to Norfolk, Hampton Roads, and Virginia from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Most of the materials date from the 1920s to 1970s, although a significant number of items relate to the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. Maps of the southside section of Hampton Roads and memorabilia of Norfolk and the Tidewater area make up a majority of items in the...
Dates: created: 1851-2000; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/2015
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jim Melchor "The Chesopiean" Articles collection

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2024-035
Scope and Contents

Select articles from one perodicial publication of The Chesopiean: A Journal of American Archaeology, Volume 30, Numbers 3-4, Summer-Fall 1992, about Fort Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia entitled "Fort Norfolk Historic Building Report" written by James R. Melchor and "For Norfolk Graffiti, ca. 1864" written  y Marilyn S. Melchor, et al.

Dates: created: 1992; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2024
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

John R. Biddle Collection

 Collection — 4 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2019-024
Scope and Contents

One 1925-1935 sports scrapbook, one circa 1947-1948 notebook of information regarding the Norfolk Fire Department, one map of Cape Henry, Virginia, and photographs taken primarily in Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1925-1979; Other: Date acquired: 06/00/2019
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Jonak & Company Appraisal Reports

 Collection — 9 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-145
Scope and Contents

1980s-1990s appraisal reports created by Jonak & Company for buildings in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Buildings appraised include Life Savings Bank at 238 Main Street, The Wheat Building at 109-117 East Main Street, The Wainwright Building at 229 West Bute Street, and the Tazewell Building at 225 Granby Street.

Dates: created: circa 1985-1993; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/0000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

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