The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-15
RAPID GROWTH ON
WEST GRACE C ST !.
1t Has to Be As Result Of Crowd
cd Condition 70 East
ward.
STRIDES IN FOUR YEARS
Handsome Homes That Have Have
Gone UP as ii Built BY
Magic.

A few weeks ago representative OK
The Ti,ncs- Dispatch, In search of IN or
nation. asked Il nunbel@ OF representative
citizens TO give reason Tor 8tnc rcH 1i
estate boom In Richmond. Among others
who made answer to the Questions asked
was MIR. o. a. hawkins. the tconin'issioner
of the revenue Il pretty good authority on
anything bearing upon Richmond values
Mr.. Hawkins IN effect said there was no
boom, but that the rise In real estate
was the natural result of conditions;
that people lad TO md somewhere TO
live. and as old Richmond proper was wa
crowded folks had TO find ground IN the
new parts of tho growing city upon when
to build houses In which to#livc.$gtlie
pointed out the fact. which fact was
amply proven by q glance at his tax
books. that Main, franklin and Grace
Streets were filled UP with bricks from
the central part OF the city westward to
Lolnbardy Street, and as. a natural con-
sequence people who sought to build
homes on any OF those three streets had
to look west Of Lombardy. Any one
who is familiar withEthe crowded condi-
ton or those streets will readily concur
IN the opinion OF tile comnlsslonerSof the
revenue, but all of The Times-Dispatcll
readers are not familiar with8the condi-
tions, and it may be matter of news
10 n great many to hear the complete
story.
Crowded to the Limit.
Take Grace street, for instance: & From
Ninth street to Lonbnrdy thcrc Is not.
Il vacant lot on Grace Street. Take q,
walk along there IL you don't believe IL
and sec for yourself. 1t Is true that
,,pon some lots there are odBand dllapt-
dated houses that IN the course8of events
will come down to make room for bet-
ter and ,p- to-dnte houses Of one kind
and another, and they may In n sense
be considered vacant but, as matters
now stand they are not vacant, and SO
FAR as tho advertisements In the ncWs-
| pcrs ana on the bulletin boards OF
tho real estate agents go to SHOW they
are not In Newmarket, anu mott lablc 70
be for some time to come. Grace Street
Is crowded from Ninth to Richmond Col
| lego. and II anybody wants to live on
| Grace and must do 1T they VIII have TO
| 20 to the west. There are many peso-
pic who want to live on that he cav !,
| thoroughfare, and will not be entirely
happy untilathey do. 1'hls explains why
| Grace Street west OF Lombardy has
crown lp SO rapidly within tho last few
years.
ago. there were only three houses on
Grace street west OF Lombardy. They
we're far apart, and not the .handsoncst
residences to be found In the country.
TIon,e-scekers appreciated the beauty OF
tina t part of Grace, and finding no other
part on which they could stick brick.
| they naturally focked there
Some of the New Homes.
To-day there arc nearly fifty com--
plcted residences on West Grace between
I,ombardy Street and Allen Avenue, and
quite a number under course OF con-
struction, among thom the pretty homes
OF j. A. Cook, II. A. BEDFORD. Professor
". a. Harris, w. M. Addison a, w
Lee, stuart Bowe, Rev. b. Fl. d Melton
Rev. j.. j. Haley, John J. Butler w.
Fl, Parrish. G. W. Hunter, J. II. spicer,
II. NJ Airport, IT. R. Pollard, Jr lilll
Montague c>Ihers Miller. f. r. Ches-
tcrman and others, and IN addition tho
beautiful Shenandoah apartment house.
Between Allen Avenue and Meadow
! street arc tho residences Of T. W. Grin
nell, NJ - Ferguson, Ihe 1,e 3, \. - = !
! Yates, r. II. Gilmore, Rev. j. w. Mitch
| ell. G, w. Libby, G.. letter Jones, w, J.