Thanks Vince.   Yes, was using the Made Goodrich W.P.A. report as for
photo year.

Since my last post where I found information on the 707-1/2 N 30th Wills
House this past Saturday, I found the Mutual Assurance policy on it
which in January 1820 started as a "new" house.  Apparently Capt. Wills
also built a new wooden house in 1816 next door to it closer to N Street
on N 30th.  He built several properties in Church Hill, Shockoe, and
Shed Town area.  The house we live in (407 N 27th) which he and others
called then the main "mansion" house, isn't part of Madge Goodrich's
inventory even though it is the oldest house in Church Hill today.  Not
sure why she did not include it but did so with the brick house next
door at 405 N 27th, was built by Capt. Wills' daughter Sarah and her
husband John Alvey in 1835.  John Alvey committed suicide by drowning in
1837 and Sarah died in 1862.

Eric



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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Urban Renewal Project of 1970s and/or House on N
30th history...

Eric,

I assume you base your 1938 date on the survey report of the Virginia
Historical Inventory.
http://image.lva.virginia.gov/VHI/html/14/0515.html

I took a look at the Richmond Esthetic Survey
(http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/aboutres.htm)from the
mid-1960s and that property doesn't show up. That may mean it was gone
already (or they just didn't photograph it).

You might try following the property through the tax records to see when
it goes off the rolls. 

If you think it was torn down b/c the pumping station was constructed,
the city's public works department reports might include comments on
properties to be demolished.

Anyway, just some thoughts. Good luck.

Vince Brooks 
 
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