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Information about the Ballard House Hotel in Richmond, VA during the Civil War. The Ballard House was located on the northeast side of the corner of 14th and Franklin streets and was connected to the Exchange Hotel by a footbridge which ran across Franklin street.
Ballard built the more modern four-story Ballard House in 1855-1856, connecting the two structures first with a steel bridge and then with a brick bridge that crossed Franklin Street at the second floor level.
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The Exchange Hotel, completed in 1841 in Richmond, Virginia was a Gothic revival four-story building designed by Isaiah Rogers. It was very popular before the Civil War. The Ballard House opened up across the street in 1855.
A second-story bridge connects the 1841 Exchange Hotel (at right) on Franklin Street in Richmond to the newer Ballard House, which was constructed in 1855-1856. John P. Ballard owned both hotels. The Ballard and the Exchange survived the fires set by the evacuating Confederate army in April 1865, but both hotels closed by 1896.
Exchange and Ballard Summary Photograph shows the Exchange Hotel on the right joined by a bridge over Franklin Street to the more modern Ballard House in Richmond, Virginia. Contributor Names Anderson, D. H. (David H.), 1827-1905, photographer
Information about the Ballard House Hotel in Richmond, VA during the Civil War. The Ballard House was located on the northeast side of the corner of 14th and Franklin streets and was connected to the Exchange Hotel by a footbridge which ran across Franklin street.
Images of the Ballard House. In the Alexander Gardner Catalog: 921 Ballard’s Hotel, Richmond, April 14, 1865. John Reekie. Details. Published: 05 March 2015. Civil War Richmond is an online research project by Mike Gorman about Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War.
