Elizabeth Kambourian shared the following with us:

I'm doing some newspaper research on a murder in Richmond in 1925. I keep running into enticing ads for houses being built in this neighborhood. I have also been collecting other pictures from long ago, of local houses. I am attaching 2 ads for houses in Brookdale (my section). Bellevue is a section bounded by Bellevue, Westbrood, Brook and Hermitate. Brookdale is bounded by Laburnum, Brook, Bellevue and MacArthur. This, of course, is nit-picking . . .

The ad for the "Laburnum Section" describes my house, and no doubt the 10,000 other Four-squares in the area. The daughter-in-law of the man who built my house told me he paid $8,000 for it in 1925 . 
The ad with the drawing has an exact house in it, on Brook Rd.  All these Tudor houses (practically) were built by Muhleman & Kayhoe.  Many of the Four-Squares were built by the "City Building Company". 

It would be nice (hint) if others who have pictures of Bellevue houses in their former days would submit them.  I could scan them.  Methinks I'm the only one interested in the history of this little section of the universe.

Elizabeth

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