The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
.ON AVENUE TO
LOVELY 0 ] TX | D
Beautiful Part Of East End Of
Greater Richmond Rapidly
Building Up.
HAPPY HOMES e ARE. GOING |I Up
What May in Time Be Lovlies ;
Part Of Eastern Greater g
Richmond.
HOMES ARE. GOING UP

II is r.ossible that the Richmond city
Council never did a wiser or better thing
than when 1t appropriated sutilcleht
money TO pave the streets and ROADWAY
10 lakewood Cemetery. In the first place
it is due to all Richmond that there
shall be good and easy driveway 70
that ..silent city Of the dead. In order
thot tho hundreds OF people whose loved
ones lie buried there shall be aple 70
visit their graves in some kind OF COM
fort. Tho sum OF $4,000 Is now available
and Is to be expended In Paving OAK
wood Avenue and the streets leading
thereto. This paving will almost certain
ly be done this summer.
Incidentally this work, that ought 70
have been done long ago. opens up .
new territory for homes for the men or
small means and will go a good way y
relieving the congestcd condition OF
Greater Richmond. When paved IN .ac-
corlancc with the plans agreed upon
and with the money already appropriated
Oakwood Avenue Will be- one Oh me
loyclicst little residence streets IN Great 4
or Richmond and 1t will really be IN
Nicholas decree In the Henrico Circuit
Court, 1t and the adjoining. nearby and
cross streets and avenues will be within
the corporate limits
Development Already.
This section has not waited for the
pnvers to come along to be developed
into a pleasant residence section. AL
ready lots have been laid off, cross streets
have been improved alleys have been
run and a larG number OF NICE cozy cot
tapcs have gone nip and are occupied by
happy families who enjoy a kind Of sub
urbnn-country life with6a modicum or
city advantages, because with prompt
and efficient street car service lthey
arc lust AS near to tho heart Of the city
as are the people who live in the West
End and MS near by as Meadow Street
or the Boulevard residents, II l
Mr. s. r. iC0wardln, who owned good
tract Of land along the avenue and he
yond on Dickenson, Blakey and Garrison
Streets and on Cowardin Avenue COM
menccd the development year or two
ago. He built n number Of cozN MONIES
which he sold to men of small means
on accommodating terms, and now quite
settlement has grown UP, Churches
and stores arc nearby and the territory
mentioned has become n pleasant llttle
village within n city,
Street Car Accommodations,
| The Oakwood cars running from both
Main and Broad Streets so out Veneabie
and @ streets into lakewood Avenue,
along It's full length on to the cemetery,
thus giving the people who are build
ing cottages In that section ample fn-
! cilIties to get TO and from downtown
business.
half a dozen houses are now going
M on Oakwood Avenue and the sound
of the hammer and the saw is heard on
Bnkey, Dickinson and Garrison htree,s
ma on CoWavdin Avrnl,e and Ill out In
that part of the East End The land Is
high and dry, the air Is pure and bracing
and the general view is pleasing me
people who have made their homes out
on lakewood Avenue and the section aon'
tiguous thereto think they are l'Ylhs ~
what Is mt no distant day to be the
lovIest part Of the eastern section %
| Greater Richmond. a