The Fan is a district of Richmond, Virginia, so named because of the "fan" shape of the roads that extend west from Belvidere St. North Side is an area comprised of northern Richmond Virginia and some parts of Henrico County Virginia. The Southside of Richmond is an area of the Metropolitan Statistical Area surrounding Richmond Virginia. The East End of Richmond Virginia is actually a collection of neighborhoods The West End is an urban and Suburban region of Richmond Virginia. See also Richmond Virginia This article is about the various neighborhoods in the Greater Richmond Virginia area This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. , on the eastern edge of Monroe Park, westward to Boulevard. Boulevard (usually referred to as "The Boulevard" although the street name does not include any Definite article) is a historic Street in the The Fan is one of the easterly points to the city's West End section, and is bordered to the north by Broad St and to the south by Cary Street. Many cafes and locally owned restaurants are located here, as well as historic Monument Avenue. Monument Avenue, in Richmond Virginia, memorializes Virginian native Confederate participants of the Civil War and one 20th century Richmond native Development of the Fan district was strongly influenced by the City Beautiful movement of the late 19th century. The City Beautiful movement was a Progressive reform movement in North American Architecture and Urban planning that flourished in the 1890s and
As development increased from downtown at the turn of the 19th century, Franklin street became a fashionable "West End" address. The West End is an urban and Suburban region of Richmond Virginia. A desire for a West End address drove rapid real estate development of the area, changing the area from rural tobacco fields in 1900 to being almost fully developed land by the 1930's. As development accelerated, the University of Richmond (then located on Lombardy Street) decided to move westward to a more rural location (its present Westhampton location). The University of Richmond is a private nonsectarian liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia The term "The Fan" was coined in the mid 20th century by a Richmond Times Dispatch editorial, as the appellation "The West End" no longer applied. The Richmond Times-Dispatch ( RTD or TD for short is the primary daily Newspaper in Richmond Virginia The West End is an urban and Suburban region of Richmond Virginia.
The eastern part of the fan (known as the "Lower Fan") is home to Virginia Commonwealth University's Monroe Park Campus and part of the fan's residents are college students attending VCU. Virginia Commonwealth University, or VCU, is a large public American research University with its main campuses located in downtown Richmond, The western part of the fan (The "Upper Fan") is a more young professional and wealthy residential area with a commercial district on Robinson Street. The Upper Fan borders and blends with The Boulevard, The Museum District, and Carytown District.
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Architecture
The Fan is significant for having one of the longest intact stretches of Victorian architecture in the United States. The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of Architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era.
Primary architectural styles represented include:
Other architectural styles include:
- Tudor
- Second Empire
- Beaux-Arts
- Art Deco
- Spanish
- Gothic
- Bungalow
- American Arts and Crafts Movement
- James River Georgian
- Southern Colonial
- Jacobean
In April of 2005, the Virginia Center for Architecture opened Branch House, an architecture museum on Monument Avenue. In the course of the history of Classical architecture, an Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in which Italian sixteenth-century Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of American Architecture named after Architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity The Queen Anne Style is a style of architecture, furniture and decoration that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century manifesting itself in The Colonial Revival was a Nationalistic Architectural style and Interior design movement in the United States. The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485&ndash1603 and even beyond for conservative college This article is about the Second Empire architectural style For France during the reign of Napoleon III of France, see Second French Empire Beaux Arts architecture denotes the academic classical Architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939 affecting the decorative arts such as Architecture, Interior design, and Industrial Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. A bungalow (બંગલો baṅglo, बंगला baṅglā) is a type of single-storey House that originated in India. The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the The Jacobean style is the name given to the second phase of Renaissance Architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. Virginia Center for Architecture is one of the nation’s few museums dedicated to architecture Branch House Located at 2501 Monument Avenue in Richmond Virginia, USA, this. Monument Avenue, in Richmond Virginia, memorializes Virginian native Confederate participants of the Civil War and one 20th century Richmond native The Branch House was a historic Richmond home designed in 1918 by John Russell Pope as a reproduction of an English Tudor manor house. John Russell Pope ( April_24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an architect most known for his designs of the Jefferson Memorial The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485&ndash1603 and even beyond for conservative college A manor house or fortified manor-house is a Country house, which has historically formed the administrative centre of a manor (see Manorialism
History
In 1817, The Fan was plotted as the village of Sydney on land formerly owned by William Byrd II. William Byrd II ( 28 March 1674 &ndash 26 August 1744) was a planter and Author from Charles City County, Virginia Primary development of the Fan occurred from after the Civil War until about 1920. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Streetcar lines leading from downtown influenced development, where the nation's first electric streetcar system was inaugurated in 1888. During the Great Depression, many of the single-family homes in the area were converted to apartments.
Nightlife
The Fan is home to one of the city's best social scenes. Many of the independently owned restaurants stay open until 2:00 a. m. , serving up some serious fun after hours. It is not uncommon to rub elbows with young professionals and college students from the area, as well as locals that have been frequenting some of the same bars for decades.
Maps
External links
- http://www.fandistrict.org/
- http://www.historicrichmond.com/fan.html
- The Fan on Myspace.com
- The Fan neighbors on Yahoo!Groups
- Fan District Hub
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