3001 E. Marshall Street. c. 1885. Built in 1885, this frame Victorian house retains many of its original features such as its modillioned box cornice with dentils, shingles with floral decorations, and a porch with decorative sawn woodwork. The home had numerous residents through at least the first quarter of the twentieth century, with Eliza, Frank, and Lewis Godsey its first recorded tenants. Other residents included William Fort, livery stable hand, Cornell Lawrence, box maker, Flavis D. Goode, cigarette maker, and Cary Eggleston, clerk for the C&O Railroad's 9th Street freight depot. At least three widows, Mrs. S. C. Lord, Mrs. M. E. Wrenn, and Mrs. Alice K. Witham, made the house their home between 1885 and 1930. The house is listed as a contributing structure to the Church Hill North Historic District on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
Built in 1885, this frame Victorian house retains many of its original features such as its modillioned box cornice with dentils, shingles with floral decorations, and a porch with decorative sawn woodwork. The home had numerous residents through at least the first quarter of the twentieth century, with Eliza, Frank, and Lewis Godsey its first recorded tenants. Other residents included William Fort, livery stable hand, Cornell Lawrence, box maker, Flavis D. Goode, cigarette maker, and Cary Eggleston, clerk for the C&O Railroad's 9th Street freight depot. At least three widows, Mrs. S. C. Lord, Mrs. M. E. Wrenn, and Mrs. Alice K. Witham, made the house their home between 1885 and 1930. The house is listed as a contributing structure to the Church Hill North Historic District on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
Marker is in Richmond, Virginia. It is in Church Hill. It is at the intersection of East Marshall Street and North 30th Street, on the right when traveling east on East Marshall Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3001 E Marshall St, Richmond VA 23223, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Central Virginia. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on September 9, 2024. It was originally submitted on September 9, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 151 times since then and 34 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on September 9, 2024, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
