Bernard M. Stanton Papers, 1948-1958, undated | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Sarah Osorio

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Biographical Note

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Box 1

Folder 1: Appraisal, Appraisal of Tankar Oil Company Terminal, Riverview Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia, 1948 March 15

By Hunter A. Hogan, Jr. Includes photographs of Tankar Oil Company Office, bulk plant, tanks, boat house, and pier. Includes introductory correspondence from Hunter A. Hogan, Jr. to B. M. Stanton, written on July 9, 1948. The maps listed below were attached to the end of the booklet.

Item 1: Map, Wagner's Complete Map of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Environs, 1945

Published by The A. C. Wagner Company. Revised 1945, Copyright 1926 by A. C. Wagner. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Item 2: Cadastral map, Plate 593, undated

Map shows area around Riverview Avenue and includes some handwritten notations. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Item 3: Plat, Riverview Avenue area, undated

Photocopy; this plat can only be considered approximate as no survey was made. Plat shows Riverview Avenue, River Avenue,  Fairfax Avenue, Olney Road, and the right of way of the Norfolk & Western Railroad. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Folder 2: Draft, Parking Program for the Central Business District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1952 October

Third Draft. Prepared for the City of Norfolk. De Leuw, Cather & Company, Engineers. Recommended parking program to provide adequate parking space for the following decade. The maps listed below were attached to the end of the booklet.

Item 1: Map, Norfolk Parking Study, Existing Off-Street Parking Facilities, 1952 October

Exhibit 1. De Leuw, Cather & Company, Engineers, Chicago. Includes zones and different types of parking facilities for the downtown Norfolk area. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Item 2: Map, Norfolk Parking Study, Proposed Off-Street Parking Facilities, 1952 October

Exhibit 2. De Leuw, Cather & Company, Engineers, Chicago. Includes zones and proposed facilities shaded in red. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Folder 3: Booklet, Parking Program for the Central Business District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1952 October

Prepared for the City of Norfolk. De Leuw, Cather & Company, Engineers. The maps listed below were attached to the end of the booklet.

Item 1: Map, Norfolk Parking Study, Existing Off-Street Parking Facilities, 1952 October

Exhibit 1. De Leuw, Cather & Company, Engineers, Chicago. Includes zones and different types of parking facilities for the downtown Norfolk area. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Item 2: Map, Norfolk Parking Study, Proposed Off-Street Parking Facilities, 1952 October

Exhibit 2. De Leuw, Cather & Company, Engineers, Chicago. Includes zones and proposed facilities shaded in red. Located in Map Drawer 17.

Folder 4: Booklet, City of Norfolk, Virginia Proposed Current Budget for the Fiscal Year 1953, 1952 October 14

64 pages.

Folder 5: Booklets, Stanpark Realty Corporation versus City of Norfolk, circa 1957

Item 1: Booklet, Opening Brief of Appellants, circa 1957

In the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia at Richmond. Record number 4707.

Item 2: Booklet, Record Number 4707 Brief, 1957 August 28

In the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia at Richmond.

Folder 6: Transcript, Virginia: In the Corporation Court of the City of Norfolk, Part 1, 1958 April 30

Reporter's Transcript. In the matter of the City of Norfolk condemning certain property whereof Pender Holding Corporation, Stanpark Realty Corporation, B. M. Stanton and Dorothy P. Stanton are the owners and tenants of the freehold. Before The Honorable Lawrence H. Bullock, Judge, Norfolk, Virginia. J. M. Knight, Shorthand Reporter, Norfolk, Virginia.

Folder 7: Correspondence, 1952-1958

Item 1: Correspondence, H. H. George, III to the Honorable Council, 1952 November 4

Includes correspondence dated November 1, 1952.

Item 2: Correspondence, W. H. Squires to the City Manager, City Planning Commission, and City Traffic Engineer, 1952 November 10

Item 3: Correspondence, B. M. Stanton to Henry H. George, III, 1952 November 15

Item 4: Correspondence, B. M. Stanton to F. L. Nicholson, 1952 November 24

Includes Preliminary Observations of Parking Program & Report, Prepared by De Leuw, Cather & Company for Norfolk, October 1952.

Item 5: Correspondence, H. H. George, III to the Honorable Council, 1953 February 17

Includes correspondence dated February 16, 1953.

Item 6: Correspondence, B. M. Stanton to H. H. George, III, 1953 February 23

Includes daily figures for Park & Shop Parking Lots at Monticello Avenue and Boush Street lots for January 5 through February 21.

Item 7: Correspondence, John C. Davis to Gentlemen, 1953 April 10

Item 8: Correspondence, H. H. George, III to the Honorable Council, 1953 June 9

Item 9: Correspondence, Sherwood Reeder to B. M. Stanton, 1955 September 15

Includes correspondence from B. M. Stanton to Sherwood Reeder, dated September 2, 1955.

Item 10: Correspondence, B. M. Stanton to Members of Norfolk City Council, 1955 December 12

Item 11: Correspondence, B. M. Stanton to Thomas F. Maxwell, 1956 March 2

Includes correspondence from S. C. Morrisette to B. M. Stanton, dated February 13, 1956.

Item 12: Correspondence, Mary M. Randolph to B. M. Stanton, 1958 October 16

Includes ordinance number 19,611, accepting the offer of B. M. Stanton, Dorothy P. Stanton, and the National Bank of Commerce of Norfolk to sell property to the City of Norfolk. Includes envelope.

Folder 8: Norfolk City Council Records, 1951-1953

Item 1: Statement, Statement of the Council Relative to the City Providing Off-Street Parking for Motor Vehicles, 1951 May 22

Item 2: Ordinance, Ordinance Number 14,641, 1950 August 22

An ordinance to relieve congestion in the use of the streets in the downtown area of the city.

Item 3: Ordinance, Ordinance Number 15,865, 1952 June 5

An ordinance authorizing the purchase from the owner or owners thereof of a certain parcel of land in the City of Norfolk.

Item 4: Ordinance, Ordinance Number 16,303, 1952 December 30

An ordinance authorizing the acquisition by the city, by purchase or by condemnation if necessary, of certain lands.

Item 5: Docket for the Council, Regular Weekly Session, 1953 May 12

Item 6: Action of the Council, Regular Weekly Session, 1953 May 12

Item 7: Docket for the Council, Regular Weekly Session, 1953 June 23

Item 8: Ordinance, Ordinance Number 16,649, 1953 June 30

An ordinance authorizing the acquisition by the city, by purchase or by condemnation, if necessary, of certain property in the City of Norfolk.

Item 9: Ordinance, Ordinance Number 16,949, 1953 December 22

An ordinance authorizing the development of certain city-owned property.

Folder 9: Notes, undated

Includes handwritten letter from Mar to B. M., detailed notes, and mathematical figures relating to parking in downtown Norfolk.

Folder 10: Clippings, 1952, 1958

Item 1: Clippings, 1952 November

Item 2: Clippings, 1958 June

Item 3: Clippings, 1958 July

Item 4: Clippings, 1958 August

Item 5: Clippings, 1958 September - October

Item 6: Clippings, 1958 November

Item 7: Clippings, 1958

Folder 11: Miscellaneous, 1950-1953

Item 1: Speech, The Preservation of Private Enterprise, 1950 April 24

Address Delivered at the Coal Convention, American Mining Congress, Cincinnati, Ohio. By United States Senator A. Willis Robertson of Virginia.

Item 2: Agreement, Agreement of Lease, 1950 May 1

An agreement made between Pender Holding Corporation and B. M. Stanton and Dorothy P. Stanton.

Item 3: Article, Norfolk Destroys Slums in Redevelopment Plan, circa 1952 June

By Frank Sullivan.

Item 4: Petition, 1953 August 11-13

Signatures of individuals who frequently parked at Park & Shop Parking Lot at 317 Boush Street in Norfolk, Virginia and thought that no additional parking spaces were needed for the area.