Friday Photos is back this week with just over 60 photos on the newer side of history. Most images are of architectural details. Also in this batch are a few photos of Tim Youmans presenting at the June Lunch and Learn lecture, a few pictures of the National Ave. roundabout construction last summer, and the Braddock Street 7-Eleven shortly before it was demolished. Catch all the new additions at the top of the PHW Flickr photostream.
Included in those new additions are also sixteen interior photos of 214 Sharp Street, once the home of John Markell (d. 1865), a local carpenter. The house has a number of fine interior features you would expect from a woodworker’s home. For those with the time and inclination to do some light legal reading in Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, John Markell’s will was contested to clarify the ownership of the house, yard, and garden at 214 Sharp (Warwick) Street after his widow’s death. Although not as sensational a reading as the various Baker Chocolate court cases, it is an interesting look at the personal property owned by the Markells and a valuable source of family names and relationships for researchers.