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The second Richmond Theatre was built through the advocacy of John Marshall. It was built on the same site as the first Richmond Theatre at what is now the intersection of 12th and Broad just north of Capitol Square. [3] There was an orchestra section, a first balcony, and an upper balcony, with narrow doorways. [11]
The Richmond Theater fire was one of the greatest tragedies of its time, resulting in the death of dozens of people in 1811. Remembering the Richmond Theater fire 200 years later [Video] Skip to ...
The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, on the Night of the 26th December 1811, Aquatinta: 13 3/4 x 17 in. (sight) Date: 26 December 1811: Source:
Portrait of John Marshall by Cephas Thompson from c. 1809–1810. Marshall played an instrumental role in getting the second Richmond Theatre built. [9]The second Richmond Theatre was built on the same site as the first theatre, and was erected through the advocacy of John Marshall who was serving as Chief Justice of the United States at the time of the theatre's construction. [9]
Tuesday’s shooting outside a downtown theatre in Richmond, Virginia was the second to occur at a school-related event in the Virginia capital city. ... This is a live blog covering a shooting in ...
English: 1798 drawing of the green room of the Richmond Theatre (built 1786) by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. This theatre was destroyed in a fire the year the painting was made. It was not the theatre from the famous 1811 fire, but an earlier Richmond Theatre.
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The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital (LSU Press, 1998). Titus, Katherine R. "The Richmond Bread Riot of 1863: Class, Race, and Gender in the Urban Confederacy" The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era 2#6 (2011) pp. 86–146 online; Wright, Mike. City Under Siege: Richmond in the Civil War (Rowman ...