Schools
Information about schools in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1911-04-22, Richmond Times-Dispatch; City School Board may buy the Van Lew mansion for $25,000 to replace it with “a modern school building”
1911-04-27, Richmond Times-Dispatch; School Board indicates “its purpose of acquiring the Van Lew property…the option price being $25,000”
1911-06-02, Richmond Times-Dispatch; City playgrounds, including the new one at the Van Lew property, to open June 16. Summer band concerts to open at Chimborazo Park
1911-07-08, Richmond Times-Dispatch; School Board asks permission to condemn the Van Lew property, the price not to exceed $25,000
1911-07-08, St. Paul (Minn.) The Appeal; the purchase of the Van Lew house by Richmond for a school “seals its fate,” and the house “will soon exist only as a memory and a tradition.”
1911-07-17, Richmond Times-Dispatch; details on the new schools to be built – Van Lew property has been condemned to clear title, and the city will buy it for $25,000 to erect the new Bellevue School
1911-07-19, Richmond Times-Dispatch; City Attorney ordered to condemn the Van Lew property and pay the owners a cost not to exceed $25,000
1911-07-21, Richmond Times-Dispatch; playground on the Van Lew property to be dismantled; laborers at Chimborazo Park getting paid for hours they didn’t work
1911-07-22, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Mayor signs bill to acquire the Van Lew property “for public school purposes”
1911-08-07, Richmond Times-Dispatch; City Council planning a “white school to take the place of old Bellevue, to be erected on the Van Lew property” as soon as legalities can be ironed out

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