Downtown Richmond is unfortunately a shell of its former self, I'm not surprised to hear it was so quiet. On your next visit be sure to check out the Fan, it's spectacular and full of life. The other notable historic neighborhood is Church Hill, whose riverside views gave the city its name from their close resemblance to Richmond upon Thames.
On the railroad front, the city is home to North America's only triple railroad crossing. Richmond also boasted America's first streetcar network, which was installed by Frank Sprague, who later founded an elevator company which he eventually sold to Otis.
Fascinaring! Robert Harpur, who had an interest in the classics, had a similar influence in New York.
While Harpur worked as a clerk in the office of the New York State Surveyor General, and Secretary of the Land Board, he assigned numerous classical names to locations.
Many central New York cities are named after places and figures of the Greco-Roman world, including Rome, Syracuse, Ithaca, Troy, Homer, Cicero, and Ovid. This is largely due to the influence of Harpur, who assigned many of the best known names. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harpur)
Be sure to go back when the Fine Arts Museum's Art Nouveau and Art Deco wings reopen--they're excellent collections.
You might also enjoy a visit to my home of Staunton, a little less than three hours southwest of DC along interstate 81, home of the Blackfriars Playhouse and a local center of the farm-to-table movement. Working for the American Shakespeare Center led me to earn a PhD in Shakespeare, and it's striking to me how very similar the feel is between Staunton, Stratford (Ontario), and Stratford-upon-Avon, all three small walkable tourist-friendly towns anchored by theatres and surrounded by farmland.
Downtown Richmond is unfortunately a shell of its former self, I'm not surprised to hear it was so quiet. On your next visit be sure to check out the Fan, it's spectacular and full of life. The other notable historic neighborhood is Church Hill, whose riverside views gave the city its name from their close resemblance to Richmond upon Thames.
On the railroad front, the city is home to North America's only triple railroad crossing. Richmond also boasted America's first streetcar network, which was installed by Frank Sprague, who later founded an elevator company which he eventually sold to Otis.
Such an evocative pioece, of landscape and memory. Thank you
Fascinaring! Robert Harpur, who had an interest in the classics, had a similar influence in New York.
While Harpur worked as a clerk in the office of the New York State Surveyor General, and Secretary of the Land Board, he assigned numerous classical names to locations.
Many central New York cities are named after places and figures of the Greco-Roman world, including Rome, Syracuse, Ithaca, Troy, Homer, Cicero, and Ovid. This is largely due to the influence of Harpur, who assigned many of the best known names. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harpur)
Be sure to go back when the Fine Arts Museum's Art Nouveau and Art Deco wings reopen--they're excellent collections.
You might also enjoy a visit to my home of Staunton, a little less than three hours southwest of DC along interstate 81, home of the Blackfriars Playhouse and a local center of the farm-to-table movement. Working for the American Shakespeare Center led me to earn a PhD in Shakespeare, and it's striking to me how very similar the feel is between Staunton, Stratford (Ontario), and Stratford-upon-Avon, all three small walkable tourist-friendly towns anchored by theatres and surrounded by farmland.