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.

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PC 99.91 Virginia Heights Baptist.jpg
"Virginia Heights Baptist Church, Roanoke, Virginia."

Davis 15.631 Virginia Heights Book Station.jpg
Interior view of the Virginia Heights Book Station. The Virginia Heights Book Station was a precursor to the Raleigh Court Branch Library. It was located in the Masonic Lodge building at Grandin Road and Memorial Avenue.

Davis 21.543 Virginia Heights Baptist.jpg
Virginia Heights Baptist Church, located at 2014 Memorial Avenue SW.

PC 99.9 Virginia Heights Baptist.jpg
"Virginia Heights Baptist Church, organized 1919. Educational building erected 1922; The auditorium of Colonial design throughout, with complete cooling system, was erected in 1938. Located in the Magic City of Roanoke, Virginia, the gateway to…

Underwood 20 Virginia Heights.jpg
Aerial view of Virginia Heights

PC 132.9 Virginia Heights.jpg
"Virginia Heights"

PC 132.91 Virginia Heights.jpg
"Virginia Heights Bridge and Roanoke River"

VHBC1.jpg
Original A-frame chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church is being moved to make way for the construction of brick sanctuary.

VHBC2.jpg
The original A-frame chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church is being moved to make way for the construction of a new sanctuary.

VHBC3.jpg
Wooden chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church on what is now the 2000 block of Memorial Avenue, SW (then Virginia Avenue) near the intersection with Grandin Road.

VHBC4.jpg
Interior of the original wooden chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.

VHBC5.jpg
Laying of the cornerstone for the new sanctuary of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.

VHBC6.jpg
The new sanctuary of Virginia Heights Baptist Church under construction on Memorial Avenue (then Virginia Avenue).

VHBC7.jpg
Looking west on Memorial Avenue (then Virginia Avenue) from Grandin Road at the original A-frame chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church (foreground) and construction of new brick sanctuary.

VHBC8.jpg
Attendees at the last worship service in the wooden A-frame chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church before moving worship to the new brick sanctuary.

RC2 Virginia Heights Baptist.jpg
Chapel and first sanctuary of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.

RC4 Virginia Heights Elementary.jpg
Virginia Heights Elementary School is seen in the background. In the foreground is the foundation being laid for Virginia Heights Baptist Church.

RC5 VHBC Sunday School.jpg
Parishioners in front of chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.

RC7 VHBC Parishioners.jpg
Parishioners in front of chapel of Virginia Heights Baptist Church.

RC15 Virginia Heights.jpg
Aerial view of Virginia Heights. Evergreen Cemetery is visible in the foreground; Memorial Bridge is visible in the lower right.

RC16 Memorial Bridge.jpg
Aerial view of Memorial Bridge.

RC31 Virginia Heights Elementary.jpg
A newly constructed Virginia Heights Elementary School (right) stands next to the old Virginia Heights Elementary.
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