A fairly large update of photos is now up in the November 2015 Gallery. Take a look and enjoy! As always, you can click on the photo below to access it:
July 2015: Photo Gallery
No real excuses on the lack of photos, it seems that work, the gym and weekend landscaping chores seem to eat away at a lot of my free time these days. Nonetheless, on July 31st I took a stroll through the neighborhood and snapped a couple photos of the City and Church Hill as the sun was setting. Hope you enjoy this small photos set. I also fixed a small Gallery glitch this evening. If you see anything not working properly, please message me on Facebook.
February 2015: Photo Gallery
January 2015: Photo Update
2015 will mark the 15th anniversary of RCW in March. My focus this year is not only provide a photo update each month, but to write some additional stories over the year that highlight the changes to downtown since 2000.
In the meantime, a set of of photos from 2 weeks ago is now up in the RCW Gallery. Please select the photo below to access the January 2015 Gallery.
December 2014: Photo Update
New Building Pages Coming
In an effort to provide clear and concise research on buildings and structures for Richmond, I’m in the process now of creating new pages for each building and structure in the RCW building database.
I’ve realized that the work I did several years ago for the database was rushed, opinionated and quite frankly, poorly written. I want to go back through the information I’ve compiled and verify its accuracy. I’ll also be adding new information from the sources I’ve compiled over the years.
Unfortunately the image links in the RCW building database are broken. I’ll be adding a couple of photos to each page so visitors to the site can easily see what each building looks like. At some point I would like to provide a link to the Gallery for each building so users can see even more photos of the building.
I expect that this will be a multi-year task. My goal will be to complete building pages for all of our structures 10 stories or taller within the next few months. I’ll share new pages to the Facebook page once they are complete.
For now, new building pages are located under the “Buildings” tab on the main page.
– Ryan
November 2014: Photo Update
October 2014: Photo Update
August 2014: Photo Update
RCW Building Database: Back Online
The RCW Building Database, with 818 entries as of today, is back online. My next long-range project is to overhaul the database to include:
- New graphics and page layout
- Updated building and page content
- Integration of building photos
In the meantime, enjoy the old database. A link has been added to the site’s overall header.