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Welcome to the Rivermont Avenue Heritage Trust, the official website of the Friends of Rivermont Historical Society.

The Rivermont Avenue subdivision was planned as a residential suburb of Lynchburg in the early 1890s. The name “Rivermont” can be traced to the 1850s’ property of William Daniel, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Hannah Cabell. This original property stretched from near Point of Honor to the current Rivermont Avenue.

Tour Properties

415 Rivermont Ave

Categories
  • Lower Rivermont
Address
415 Rivermont Ave.
Property Name
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Date Built
1909
Architect
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Contractor
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Function
Multi-Family
Style & Architectural Description
Transition Queen Anne/Colonial Revival. 2-story, 3-bay hip-roofed frame house with a 1-story, 3-bay front porch. Porch has concrete steps, Tuscan columns and turned balusters. There is a cross gable at the northeast corner with pattered shingles and a round-arched window. Other windows are 9/2. Center door has transom.
Owners
  • 1909-1934 Unknown
  • 1934-1938 Martha A. Powell
  • 1938-1939 Home Owners Loan Corp.
  • 1939-1969 Arthur E. & Frances Stump
  • 1969-1975 Arthur e. Stump, Jr.
  • 1975-1978 John W. Jackson III
  • 1978-2003 William H. Crank
  • 2003-Present Central City Homes LP
Anecdotal Information
This house is typical of other houses built during this period along lower Rivermont Avenue. Formerly a single dwelling, it was converted to a duplex around 1975. According to the Lynchburg City Directory, from 1940-1942 this was Frances Southall's Beauty Shoppe and from 1948-1952 Frances Stump Beauty Shop.

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Gerard Sherayko

Department of History

Randolph College
2500 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA 24503

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