Books about Richmond, Virginia

Here is a bibliography I copied from the National Park Service website.   It looks to be pretty interesting for those who want to learn all about our fair city.  To it I would add the fine “Nonesuch Place:  A History of the Richmond Landscape” by T. Tyler Potterfield, 2009. (Available at Chop Suey Books and other fine establishments.)

Berman, Myron. Richmond’s Jewry, 1769-1976 : Shabbat in Shockoe.  Charlottesville: Published for the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, 1979.

Bondurant, Agnes M. Poe’s Richmond. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1942.

Brownell, Charles E. et al. The Making of Virginia Architecture. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1992.

Calcutt, Rebecca Barbour. Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., 2005.

Carneal, Drew St. J. Richmond’s Fan District. Richmond: The Council of Historic Richmond Foundation, 1996.

Cheek, Richard.  Old Richmond Today. Richmond: The Council of Historic Richmond Foundation, 1988.

City of Richmond Commission of Architectural Review.  Old and Historic District of Richmond, Virginia: Handbook and Design Review Guidelines.  Richmond: City of Richmond Department of Community Development, 2006.

Clinger, David M. The Glories and Ghosts of Monroe Park Richmond, Virginia: A Sesquicentennial History. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1998.

Chesson, Michael B. Richmond After the War, 1865-1890. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1981.

Crumley, Marguerite, and John G. Zehmer. Church Hill: The St. John’s Church Historic District Richmond: The Council of Historic Richmond Foundation, 1991.

Christian, W. Asbury. Richmond, Her Past and Present. Reprint Spartanburg: The Reprint Co., 1973; originally published Richmond: 1912.

Davis, Veronica A. Here I Lay My Burdens Down : A History of the Black Cemeteries of Richmond, Virginia.  Richmond: Dietz Press, 2003.

Dementi, Elisabeth, ed. Celebrate Richmond. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1999.

Dew, Charles B. Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1999.

Driggs, Sarah Shields, Richard Guy Wilson, and Robert P Winthrop. Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Driggs, Sarah Shields and John L. Orrock. Save Outdoor Sculpture!: A Survey of Sculpture in Virginia. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 1996.

Dulaney, Paul Summers. The Architecture of Historic Richmond.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.

Duke, Maurice and Daniel P. Jordan, eds.  A Richmond Reader, 1733-1983.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Furgurson, Ernest B. Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

George, Lynne Ann. An Illustrated History of Forest Hill Park. Richmond: Friends of Forest Hill Park, 1999.

Green, Bryan Clark, Calder Loth, and William M. S. Rasmussen.  Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion. Charlottesville: Howell Press, 2001.

Kimball, Fiske.  The Capitol of Virginia: A Landmark of American Architecture.  Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2002.

Kimball, Gregg D. American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Kollatz, Harry. True Richmond Stories: Historical Tales from Virginia’s Capital. Charleston: History Press, 2007.

Lee, Richard M. General Lee’s City: An Illustrated Guide to the Historic Sites of Confederate Richmond. McLean: EPM Publications, 1987.

Little, John Peyton. History of Richmond. Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., 1933.; Reprint from Southern Literary Messenger, 1851

Longest, George C.  Genius in the Garden: Charles F. Gillette & Landscape Architecture in Virginia. Richmond: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1992.

Loth, Calder, ed. Virginia Landmarks of Black History: Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Loth, Calder, Ed. The Virginia Landmarks Register. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Tyler-McGraw, Marie.  At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia and Its People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

McKenney, Carlton Norris. Rails in Richmond. Glendale: Interurban Press, 1986.

Michie, Peter S.  Richmond, Virginia 1865. [Reprint of 1865 Map] Richmond: Richmond Civil War Centennial Commission, 1965.

Mitchell, Mary H. Hollywood Cemetery: The History of a Southern Shrine.  Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1985.

Mordecai, Samuel.  Richmond in By-Gone Days. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1946, Reprint, original Richmond: 1856.

Munford, Robert Beverley, Richmond Homes and Memories. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, incorporated, c1936.

Pember, Phoebe Yates. A Southern Woman’s Story New York: G. W. Carleston & Co., 1879.

Pierce, Don. One Hundred Years at the Jefferson: Richmond’s Grand Hotel, a History. Richmond: Page One Inc., 1995.

Poindexter, G. W.  An Illustrated History of Joseph Bryan Park.  Richmond: Friends of Bryan Park, 2003.

Richardson, Selden.  Built by Blacks: African American Architecture in Richmond Virginia. Richmond:  Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, 2007.

Ryan, David D. Cornbread and Maggots–Cloak and Dagger: Union Prisoners and Spies in Civil War Richmond. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1994.

Ryan, David D. Lewis Ginter’s Richmond. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1991.

Salmon, Emily J. and John Salmon. Historic Photos of Richmond. Nashville: Turner Pub. Co., 2007.

Silver, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Scott, Mary Wingfield. Houses of Old Richmond. New York: Bonanza Books, 1941.

Scott, Mary Wingfield. Old Richmond Neighborhoods. Richmond: Valentine Museum, 1980.

Takagi, Midori. Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Ward, Harry M. and Harold E. Greer, Jr. Richmond During the Revolution, 1775-83. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

Walthall, Ernest Taylor. Hidden Things Brought to Light. Richmond: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1933.

Weddell, Alexander Wilbourne. Richmond Virginia in Old Prints, 1737 – 1887. Richmond: Johnson Publishing, 1932.

Weisiger, Benjamin B. Old Manchester & Its Environs, 1769-1910. Richmond: B.B. Weisiger, 1993.

White, Ralph R. Seeing the Scars of Slavery in the Natural Environment: An Interpretive Guide to the Manchester Slave Trail along the James River in Richmond. Richmond: James River Park System, 2002.

Whiting, Sarah. A Guide to Historic Richmond: A Sampler of Historic Buildings and Sites in Central Richmond, VA. Richmond: Historic Richmond Foundation, 2001.

Wilson, Richard Guy. Buildings of Virginia: Piedmont and Tidewater. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Winthrop, Robert P. Architecture in Downtown Richmond. Richmond: Junior Board of Historic Richmond Foundation, 1982.

Winthrop, Robert P. Cast and Wrought: The Architectural Metalwork of Richmond, Virginia.  Richmond: Valentine Museum, 1980.

Winthrop, Robert P. The Jackson Ward Historic District. Richmond: Department of Planning and Community Development, 1982.