Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Miscellaneous Records, 1929-2010

By Will Hopkins

Collection Overview

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Booklets, 1970-1997

Item 1: Planning District Address Coding Guide, 1970 March

Department of City Planning.

Item 2: Downtown Waterfront Master Development Plan, 1981 April

Norfolk, Virginia.

Item 3: The University Village at Old Dominion University Design and Development Guidelines, 1997 December 10

Draft.

Folder 2: Booklets, 1967-2010

Item 1: Neighborhood Analysis, 1967 August

Norfolk City Planning Commission.

Item 2: The Monticello Arcade: A Report for the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, 1977 May

Barton Myers Associates, Architects/Planners.

Item 3: The Waterside, Tenant Design Criteria, circa 1980s

Two copies.

Item 4: Project Reference File, The Waterside, 1984 January/March

Volume 14, Number 5. The Urban Land Institute.

Item 5: Waterside: A Working Plan for Norfolk's Living Waterfront, 2010

Folder 3: Booklets, 1971-1993

Item 1: An Urban Design Study for Downtown Norfolk, 1971 June

Item 2: Boush Cold Storage Building, Feasibility Study, 1979 January

Norfolk, Virginia.

Item 3: Downtown Graphics, Recommended Directional and Identification Sign Program for Downtown Norfolk, 1993 February 3

Downtown Graphics Study Committee.

Folder 4: Booklets, circa 1978

Item 1: The Norva Theater: A Report for the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority., circa 1978

Item 2: Freemason Harbour / Harbour Square, circa 1978

Master Development Plan for the Downtown West Waterfront. Includes history of Southgate warehouses, Ocean Pier, and C&O Pier.

Folder 5: Booklets, 1974

Item 1: Improving City Streets for Use At Night: The Norfolk Experiment, 1974 June

Box 2

Folder 1: Booklets, 1975-1976

Item 1: Downtown West Historic Survey, 1975-1976

Monticello Arcade, Freemason Street Historic District, Projected Acquisitions, Potential National Register Nominations, Properties of Limited Interest.

Folder 2: Booklets, 1968-1970

Item 1: Flood Plain Information, Coastal Flooding, Hampton, Virginia, 1968 October

Item 2: Flood Plain Information, Coastal Flooding, Norfolk, Virginia, 1970 March

Folder 3: Booklets, 1989

Item 1: Downtown Norfolk, Briefing Book for the Urban Land Institute Panel, 1989 July

Folder 4: Booklets, 1970-1992

Item 1: New Life For An Old Neighborhood: An Historical and Architectural Analysis of Ghent, 1890-1970, 1970 May 15

Item 2: New Streets and Cityscapes For Norfolk, 1976

A Master Plan for Lighting Landscaping and Street Furnishing Based on Principles of Visual Communication.

Item 3: General Plan of Norfolk, 1992 January 28

Folder 5: Booklets, 1967-1975

Item 1: The General Plan of Norfolk, 1967 November

Norfolk City Planning Commission.

Item 2: Royster House, circa 1973

Item 3: Fort Norfolk: Then and Now, circa 1973

Item 4: The Evolution of an Urban Neighborhood: Colonial Place, Norfolk, Virginia, 1975

Box 3

Folder 1: Booklets, circa 1972-2000

Item 1: City Cemeteries, The Plan for Community Facilities, 1972 February

Report 2. Department of City Planning, Norfolk, Virginia.

Item 2: College Place Study, 1977 November

Item 3: Downtown Norfolk, Virginia: An Evaluation of Development Potential and Revitalization Strategies for Granby Street and the "17 Acres" Site, 1989 July

Item 4: Norfolk: Design Guidelines For the Downtown Historic Overlay District, 1997 June

Item 5: East Ocean View, Norfolk, Virginia: A Plan for the Development of East Beach and the Revitalization of Surrounding Areas, 1998 November

Item 6: Freemason Historic District Walking Tour, Norfolk, Virginia, circa 2000

Item 7: Schooner Virginia, Virginia's Tall Ship, circa 2000

Folder 2: Historic Architectural Survey of the City of Norfolk (Part 1), 1994 November 30

Possibly related to annotated maps in Box 5, Folder 1.

Folder 3: Historic Architectural Survey of the City of Norfolk (Part 2), 1994 November 30

Possibly related to annotated maps in Box 5, Folder 1.

Folder 4: Building Surveys (Part 1), circa 1980

Possibly related to annotated maps in Box 5, Folder 1.

Folder 5: Building Surveys (Part 2), circa 1980

Possibly related to annotated maps in Box 5, Folder 1.

Folder 6: Building Surveys (Part 3), circa 1980

Includes annotated map and indexes to parts 1 and 2. Possibly related to annotated maps in Box 5, Folder 1.

Box 4

Folder 1: Booklets, circa 1993

Item 1: Developmental Possibilities for Norfolk's History, circa 1993

Folder 2: Booklets, 1978-2010

Item 1: Vacant Lottery, Design Quarterly 108, 1978

Case Study 5, Downtown Redevelopment: Norfolk, Virginia, Barton Myers Associates.

Item 2: Norfolk Scope: The Convention and Cultural Center of Norfolk, circa 1981

Item 3: The Norfolk Market, circa 1982

Item 4: Nauticus: The National Maritime Center, circa 1990

Item 5: The Power of the Sea Has Finally Been Harnessed. Nauticus, circa 1994

Item 6: Downtown Norfolk, circa 1990

Item 7: Downtown Norfolk Update, circa 1998

Item 8: Fort Norfolk: An Urban Waterfront Village in Norfolk's Atlantic City District, circa 2000

Item 9: Norfolk: Revitalization Strategies & Investment Opportunities, circa 2006

Item 10: 2006 Norfolk Residential Real Estate, circa 2006

Item 11: Norfolk's Guide to Strategic Assets, circa 2009

Item 12: Norfolk Special Districts, circa 2010

Folder 3: Booklets, 1977-2004

Item 1: Downtown Norfolk Plan Review, 1977 September

Item 2: Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority 1940-1990: Reflections on the Past - Visions of the Future, circa 1990

Item 3: NRHA 60th Anniversary: Sixty Years of Great People, Great Neighborhoods, 2000

Item 4: Norfolk Now, 2004

Norfolk Development.

Item 5: Norfolk Department of Development, The Aerial Book, 2002

Volume 1, Number 1.

Includes two copies of A Vision for the Next Decade: Norfolk 2010.

Folder 4: Booklets, 2008

Item 1: Norfolk Gardens, Model pictures, 2008 February

Folder 5: Waterside construction photographs, 1982-1983

Folder 6: Slum area photographs, undated

Photocopies.

Box 5

Folder 1: Inventory of historic resources maps, circa 1980

Includes three annotated maps (A, B, and C), possibly related to architectural surveys in Box 3, Folders 2-3 and 4-6.

Folder 2: Architectural plan, 1980

Drain plan, H. B. Hunter Company.

Folder 3: Architectural plans, 1929-1975

Four drawings for H. B. Hunter Company warehouses.

Folder 4: Architectural plans, 1953-1985

Four drawings for H. B. Hunter Company.

Folder 5: Architectural plans, 1929

Six drawings for H. B. Hunter Company.

Folder 6: Architectural plans, 1929-1979

Includes two drawings and eight plat maps, all related to H. B. Hunter Company.

Box 6: Miscellaneous aerial photographs and booklets, circa 1985-2006

Includes three aerial prints of downtown Norfolk and East Ocean View; NRHA Granby Street Design Study Final Report, June 5, 2006; and Granby Tower sales brochure.

Box 7: Miscellaneous photographs, circa 1960-1973

12 folders. Includes photos of NRHA officials, slum areas, downtown aerials and buildings, Scope interior.

Drawer Vault 13

Folder 1: Aerial color print of downtown Norfolk and Portsmouth, 1980 August 10

Box 8: Architectural models, circa 1980

Includes two models of downtown buildings.

Box 9: Architectural models, circa 1980

Includes nine models of downtown buildings, including MacArthur Memorial, Myers House, and Epworth Church.

Box 10: Architectural models, circa 1980

Includes five models of downtown buildings.

Box 11: Architectural models, circa 1980

Includes approximately 25 model bases and molds, and photograph of NRHA Director David Rice and former Director Charles Kaufman.

Box 12: Rolled Negatives, undated

Item 1: Topographic Survey East Ghent Area Projects VA-A-1-1 and 2, undated

One canister of rolled aerial photograph negatives.

Line 3-1 thru 10.

Line 4-1 thru 10.