Virginia Room Digital Collection

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The Virginia Room Digital Collection includes photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets and finding aids to items in the Virginia Room. Continue to check back for new additions.

Browse Items (5 total)

RNC 86 Orange Avenue.jpg
Driving could be a challenge on Orange Avenue in its early days. View is looking west near Gainsboro Road.

Davis 15.61 Gainsboro Library Interior.jpg
Roanoke Public Library's Gainsboro Branch found its beginnings in the Odd Fellows Hall, formerly located at the corner of Patton Avenue and Gainsboro Road. It would relocate to the current building in 1942.

Davis 22.95 Mt. Zion AME.jpg
Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly located on Gainsboro Road near Rutherford Avenue NW.

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Picture made at YMCA Gainsboro Rd. and Patton Ave. Heller Kindergarten.

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Lucy Addison High School, “Connie Isabel.”
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