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
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church
6/1960
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
6/1960
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 house in the 2900 block of Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; stone Queen-Anne style building with irre…
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 a stable behind the houses in the 2900 block of Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; small two-story Queen…
Grove Avenue
1950-1955
Color slide showing a stable behind the houses in the 2900 block of Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; small two-story Queen…
Grove Avenue
3/1959
Color slide showing a stable behind the houses in the 2900 block of Grove Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; small two-story Queen…
Dooley Avenue
3/1959
Color slide showing a stable behind a house on Dooley Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; small, two-story brick building. Geograph…
Dooley Avenue
3/1959
Color slide showing a stable behind a house on Dooley Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; small, two-story brick building. Geograph…
Sheppard Street
3/1959
Color slide showing the house at 102 Sheppard Street in the Museum District of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick Queen-Anne style house. Geographi…
Floyd Avenue
3/1959
Color slide showing a group of row houses on Floyd Avenue; likely in the Fan District of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick buildings with decorativ…
Robinson House
1955-1959
Color slide showing the Robinson House on the grounds of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Description: Richmond, V…
Chapel, Soldiers Home
3/1958
Color slide showing an exterior view of the Chapel at the Soldiers Home (Confederate Memorial Chapel) on the grounds of the Virginia Museum of Fine A…
Skipwith Cottage
1955-1959
Color slide showing the Skipwith Cottage at 400 W. Duval Street in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame house with ga…
Skipwith Cottage
1955-1959
Color slide showing the Skipwith Cottage at 400 W. Duval Street in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame house with ga…
Hill Street
1941-1949
Color slide of the house at 4 E. Hill Street in the Gilpin Court area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story brick and frame house with entrance porch on s…
Under the Ashland Viaduct
1955-1959
Color slide showing a small frame cottage sitting beneath the Richmond-Ashland Viaduct; likely in the Carver area of Richmond, Virginia. Geographic …
Charity Street
1941-1949
Color slide showing the house at 431 W. Charity Street in the Gilpin Court area of Richmond, Virginia; two-story frame house with two-story front por…
St. Paul's Church
3/1964
Black and white slide (of an earlier image) showing the sanctuary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia; before alteration. Geographi…
Edmond House
1950-1955
Color slide showing the Edmond House at 6 E. Franklin Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; three-story brick townhouse covered in wisteria; built 1…
Edmond House
1961
Color slide showing the Edmond House at 6 E. Franklin Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; built 1848; three-story brick townhouse in the process o…
Edmond House
1961
Color slide showing the Edmond House at 6 E. Franklin Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; built 1848; view of a fireplace mantel in the process of…
Edmond House
1961
Color slide showing the Edmond House at 6 E. Franklin Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; built 1848; view of interior woodwork being removed duri…
Valentine-Caskie House
1941-1949
Color slide showing the Valentine-Caskie Houses at 402-404 E. Franklin Street in downtown Richmond, Virginia; three-story brick townhouse (404) with …