Main entry:

Richardson, Selden.

Title & Author:

Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond / Selden Richardson ; editor and photographer Maurice Duke.

Edition:

History Press edition.

Publication:

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2008.
2007.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published 2007--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-185) and index.
1. The beginning : early slavery and early buildings -- 2. The slave markets in Shockoe Valley -- 3. Urban plantations and the Civil War -- 4. Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen and builders -- 5. The new architects at work : Jackson Ward and Church Hill -- 6. Virginia Union University and Frederick Douglass Court -- 7. Highways and expressways : Navy Hill -- 8. Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton -- 9. A community saved : Westwood -- 10. The city's Black churches -- 11. Richmond's African American cemeteries.

ISBN:

9781596294592 (paperback)
1596294590 (paperback)

Subject:

African American architecture Virginia Richmond.
African Americans Virginia Richmond Social conditions.
Architecture noire américaine Virginie Richmond.
Noirs américains Virginie Richmond Conditions sociales.
African American architecture
African Americans Social conditions
Buildings
Social conditions
Richmond (Va.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Richmond (Va.) Social conditions.
Virginia Richmond

Added entries:

Duke, Maurice.
Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261400
Call No.: BIB 192408
Status: Available