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 (6 total)

Interior view of Burrell Pharmacy, formerly located at 510 Gainsboro Road NW. Dr. Isaac Burrell is on the left.

Lucy Addison High School, “Connie Isabel.”

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

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

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.

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