Mary Wingfield Scott Photograph Collection
from The Valentine
This collection consists of 972 35mm slides, 99 lantern slides from older images, and 49 black and white photographs depicting demolished and extant private homes and buildings in Richmond, Virginia and surrounding counties. Many of the images were featured in Scott's books, Houses of Old Richmond (1941) and Old Richmond Neighborhoods (1950).
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Images
Tinsley House
Circa 1950
Color slide showing the rear of the Peter Tinsley House at 509 N. 6th Street in the Jackson Ward area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick house wi…
Mason's Hall
1941-1949
Color slide showing Masons Hall at 1807 E. Franklin Street in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame building with raised bas…
Hand Workshop
Circa 1965
Color slide showing the rear of the Hand Workshop, 316 N. 24th Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame building…
Hull Street
1950-1955
Color slide showing the Standard Paper Manufacturing Company building on Hull Street in the Manchester area of Richmond, Virginia; multi-story brick …
Freeland House
1941-1949
Color slide showing the Freeland House at 1015 Bainbridge Street in the Manchester area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick house with raised base…
Freeland House
11/1962
Black and white slide (of an earlier image) showing the Freeland House at 1015 Bainbridge Street in the Manchester area of Richmond, Virginia; two-st…
Leigh Street Baptist Church
1941-1949
Color slide showing the front of Leigh Street Baptist Church at 517 N. 27th Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; three-story…
Rhodes House
1941-1949
Color slide showing the Holden Rhodes House in Forest Hill Park, Richmond, Virginia; two-story stone and brick house with set of paired chimneys; bui…
Gray Cottage
1941-1949
Color slide showing the Gray Cottage; likely in the Manchester area of Richmond, Virginia; dilapidated two-story frame building with gambrel roof on …
Leigh Street Baptist Church
1941-1949
Color slide showing the front of Leigh Street Baptist Church at 517 N. 27th Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; three-story…
Shockoe Cemetery
1941-1949
Color slide showing a view of Shockoe Cemetery in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; view of ornate ironwork fence enclosing monume…
Shockoe Cemetery
Circa 1950
Color slide showing Shockoe Cemetery in the Jackson Ward area of Richmond, Virginia; view of the Marshall tombs, including the grave of John Marshall…
Shockoe Cemetery
1941-1949
Color slide showing Shockoe Cemetery in the Jackson Ward area of Richmond, Virginia; image shows the tomb and monument of Jane Craig Stanard. Geogra…
Floyd Avenue
1950-1955
Color slide showing a row of houses on Floyd Avenue, likely in the Fan District of Richmond, Virginia; row of two-story, Queen Ann style buildings. …
Grove Avenue
Color slide showing the home of Mrs. McNeill on Grove Avenue in the Fan District of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick house with large front porch …
Leigh Street Baptist Church
1941-1949
Color slide showing the front of Leigh Street Baptist Church at 517 N. 25th Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; view of wro…
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
7/1960
Color slide showing the demolition of the Church of the Holy Comforter (Episcopal) at Grove Avenue and Rowland Street in the Fan District of Richmond…
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
7/1960
Color slide showing the demolition of the Church of the Holy Comforter (Episcopal) at Grove Avenue and Rowland Street in the Fan District of Richmond…
Grove Avenue
1950-1955
Color slide showing a pair of houses in the 2900 block of Grove Avenue (at Sheppard Street) in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; two-story s…
St. John's Church
Circa 1950
Color slide showing St. John's Episcopal Church at 2401 E. Broad Street in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; view of frame church w…
Grove Avenue
5/1959
Color slide showing the stable at 2911 Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; two-story, white-painted building with cupola. Geo…
Grove Avenue
1950-1955
Color slide showing a house in the 2900 block of Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; stone Queen-Anne style building with irre…
Grove Avenue
5/1959
Color slide showing the stable at 2905 Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; small two-story Queen-Anne style building. Geograp…
Grove Avenue
1950-1955
Color slide showing the house at 2905 Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; two-story Queen-Anne style building. Geographic Des…