Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Aperture Card Collection, 1942-1980 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Will Hopkins

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Collection Overview

Title: Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Aperture Card Collection, 1942-1980

ID: 002/RG 06/2015-003

Primary Creator: Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority

Extent: 10.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Arranged in original order.

Date Acquired: 04/23/2015

Subjects: Buildings, Businesses, Norfolk (Va.), Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Roads--Virginia--Tidewater (Region)--Maps, Urban renewal

Forms of Material: Aerial photographs, Aperture cards, Government records

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection includes approximately 14,000 aperture cards (a computer data card with a 35mm microfilm window) that cover major development projects and related activities in the City of Norfolk, Virginia from the 1940s through the 1970s. The cards are organized by neighborhood area or project, and in some cases, sub-organized by category of activity and information (site diagrams, architectural plans, roads and utilities, etc.).

Aperture cards are an obsolete data storage and retrieval system used in the 1960s through the early 1990s. Machine-readable "punch" holes in the card contained searchable metadata about the subject in the microfilm window. Most of the cards in this collection are not "punched," but do include notes about subject, date, and project number.

Subject/Index Terms

Buildings
Businesses
Norfolk (Va.)
Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority
Roads--Virginia--Tidewater (Region)--Maps
Urban renewal

Administrative Information

Repository: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Source: Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority by transfer

Preferred Citation: Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Aperture Card Collection, RG 06-2015-003, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Processing Information: Processed February 2019.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1],
[Box 2],
[Box 3],
[Box 4],
[Box 5],
[Box 6],
[Box 7],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Box 10],
[All]

Box 1

Item 1: Downtown west (A-1-6,7), circa 1961-1977: Includes Granby Street/Monticello Avenue to Freemason areas.
Item 2: Downtown central (R-8,9), circa 1958-1976: Includes projects along St. Paul's Boulevard to Commercial Place area. Continues into Box 2.

Box 2

Item 1: Downtown south (R-9), circa 1960-1976: Includes areas around Commercial Place district and the waterfront.
Item 2: Downtown east (R-18), circa 1960: Includes projects in the Wood Street area.
Item 3: Norfolk Gardens project, circa 1974
Item 4: Civic Center, 1962
Item 5: Roads and highways (miscellaneous), circa 1945-1975
Item 6: Huntersville, circa 1955-1976: Includes neighborhoods such as Roberts Park, local churches, and public housing projects. Continues into Box 3.

Box 3

Item 1: Bell Diamond housing area (A-1-3, 6-15), circa 1970
Item 2: Ocean View (C-1-1, C-15), undated
Item 3: East Ghent north and south (A-1-2, A-1-1), circa 1972: Includes Maury High School.
Item 4: Colonial Place and Riverview (C14-2), circa 1970

Box 4

Item 1: East Ghent (R-43), circa 1950-1976: Includes greater East Ghent and Hague area. Includes floor plans for some houses.
Item 2: Roberts and Young Park (VA 6-3,4), circa 1970
Item 3: Bowling Park (VA 6-7), circa 1950
Item 4: Diggs Park (VA 6-6), circa 1950

Box 5

Item 1: ODU area (R-28), circa 1961-1967
Item 2: Lincoln Park (VA 7-12), undated
Item 3: Carney Park, circa 1943
Item 4: Calvert Park, undated
Item 5: Merrimack Park (VA 6-1), undated
Item 6: Liberty Park, circa 1948-1965
Item 7: Moton Park (VA 6-5), undated
Item 8: Grandy Park (VA 6-8), circa 1950
Item 9: Tidewater Park (VA 6-9), circa 1962
Item 10: Young Park, circa 1959
Item 11: Norfolk State University area, 1968-1972: Includes Norfolk State University development (academic buildings, dorms, and support facilities), Middletown Arch, East Brambleton and Broad Creek development areas. Also included are Booker T. Washington High School, Grace townhomes, Bank Street apartments, JP & P townhouses, COGIC high-rise apartments, Bowe's apartments, Park Avenue relocation, Hale's funeral home, and Park Terrace apartments.

Box 6

Item 1: Rosemont area (R-25), circa 1961-1972: Includes the Tanners Creek district of eastern Norfolk, including Oakmont, the Norview area, Wellington Oaks, Dundaff apartments, and Rosemont public housing.
Item 2: Berkley (A-1-5), circa 1970-1977: Includes redevelopment plans, First Baptist Church, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Union Congregationalist Church, Campostella area, and Berkley apartments. Continues into Box 7.

Box 7

Item 1: Park Place (R-28), circa 1974
Item 2: Anderson Park (A-1-2), undated
Item 3: Oakleaf Park, undated
Item 4: Scope and Chrysler Hall, undated: Includes plans for hotel and Freemason Street parking garage.
Item 5: Miscellaneous buildings and places, circa 1952-1980: Includes Military Circle, Candlewood Corporation, First Virginia Bank, Norfolk International Terminals, Champs restaurant, Campostella Building Supply, Monticello Arcade, Stumpy Lake golf course, Chrysler Museum, Old Christ Church, New Hope United Church, Mount Zion Baptist Church, and First Baptist Church of Berkley.
Item 6: Atlantic City area (R-1), circa 1960-1974: Includes the Hague, Medical Center, Fort Norfolk, Mid-Town Tunnel, and Eastern Virginia Medical School. Continues into Box 8.

Box 8

Item 1: Norfolk miscellaneous, circa 1971-1976: Includes statistical information, census information, land use maps, survey maps, Willoughby-Baylor House, Stumpy Lake reservoir, downtown tunnels, city utilities, Circle Towers, Easy Street high-rise, fire department and civil defense, harbor lines, Sewells Point area, aerial photos, Coastal Pharmaceutical plant, gas tanks in downtown, traffic lights system, Military Circle elderly housing, Berkley elderly housing, elderly housing projects (general), Chesapeake city maps, Naval Base, C.M.D. facility, Project 7118.03, and Union 76 facility near Berkley.
Item 2: Commercial Place area, circa 1950-1975: Includes development projects around Commercial Place district in the central and southern sections of downtown (note: some of the cards cover R-8 and R-9 sections found in Box 1). Includes Commercial Place Mall, waterfront improvements, original warehouse drawings, and Omni Hotel (continues into Box 9).

Box 9

Item 1: Commercial Place area, circa 1950-1975: (Continues from Box 8). Includes Harbour Pointe, Diggs Park, MacArthur Square, ICC office building, Longshoreman's Association, downtown feasibility and utility studies, parking plans, Downtown Shopping Plaza, Golden Triangle site, gas tanks, Civic Center, Circle Tower, waterfront surveys, St. Paul's Boulevard, fire department and civil defense, First Virginia Bank, Waterfront Drive, Brambleton Avenue, Norfolk Gardens, roads and utility plans, topographic and hydrographic maps. (Note that some cards cover R-8 and R-9 areas found in Box 1).

Box 10

Item 1: Commercial Place area, circa 1950-1975

(Continues from Box 9). Includes Virginia National Bank, Golden Triangle, Downtown Plaza (including Confederate Monument drawings), traffic studies, United Virginia Bank, C.M.D. facility, Freemason Street and Willoughby-Baylor House, and road studies and plans. (Note: includes R-8 and R-9 areas found in Box 1).

Item 2: Aperture Card Number Key, undated

Document contains number key with subjects that generally correspond with the aperture cards.

This item is housed separately.

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