lost charlottesville

Photographed January 2 at 11:36am.

Concrete move: Market Annex work begins on Main St.

Workers ready the former site of C&R Auto, whose painted signs used to grace 513 West Main Street with promises of "specializing in automatic transmissions," for an expansion of the purple-hued gourmet complex across the street known as Main Street Market.
The Free Bridge as seen from its Southwest side.

Second glance: Free Bridge a design delight

If you live or travel east of Charlottesville, you've probably driven over it hundreds, if not thousands of times without giving it a passing glance. Yet the seven-lane Free Bridge that crosses the Rivanna River on 250 East is an award-winning design project which merits a
Gaston: "The walls of segregation began to fall because of what happened at Buddy's."

Busted Buddy's: UVA has demolished civil rights landmark

The building that housed infamously non-segregating Buddy's restaurant is no more. Crews were on the scene Tuesday, November 29, tearing down the brick structure near the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road.
As seen at 2:22pm on Saturday, July 23.

Turks Gap Road

Two kids (who just finished swimming at "Blue Hole" on the south fork of the Moormans River) step off Turks Gap Road– one of the historic highways severed by the 75-year ago creation of the Shenandoah National Park– to examine the barely surviving chimney of an
Want a restaurant? Carlton's is ready to go and available.

Carlton's closes

We know the restaurant business can be tough, but Carlton's in the old Michie Company building at 609 East Market Street, may have set a record. Just two months after opening (and just days before making its Charlottesville Restaurant Week debut) the French-style restaurant
The Corner Market had been a fixture in the Chancellor Building on The Corner since 1981.

After three decades, Corner Market folds

Say it ain't so! After thirty years, a Corner landmark has quietly vanished: the Corner Market at 1411 University Avenue. The phone has been disconnected, the contents have been emptied, and we've been unable to locate long-time owner Chaney Kent. "Another chapter in the hi
Mineral in Louisa County was once a gold-mining boom town.

Found: Virginia's lost communties

In the 1890s there were big plans to transform the Louisa County town of Mineral into a metropolis. Located in the so-called “gold-pyrite belt," a nine- to sixteen-mile-wide volcanic-plutonic vein that runs about 140 miles between Fairfax and Buckingham counties, Min

Brick house

The house associated with the Rives Street store was torn down last week.~Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day at billemory.com/blog.

Then and now...

The de facto historian of UVA student and town life, Coy Barefoot, has assembled an array of then-and-now photographs of UVA-area Charlottesville scenes for your viewing pleasure in the latest edition of the alumni magazine.

Snap: Crozet house whacked for no library

This is the house torn down last year for the planned Crozet replacement library, a $10 million, 20,000 square-foot behemoth that has now been removed from the Count
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