Related Records

1. Advertising Billboards Near Franklin Road & Brandon Avenue - Photograph of large billboards at the interstection of Franklin Road and Brandon Avenue. This photograph was used in a movement to create regulations on signage in the Roanoke Valley.

   2008.13.70

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. Brandon Ridge Apartments - Brandon Ridge Apartments located on Brandon Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia. These were two story brick apartments with a swimming pool with a rock structure and chairs surrounding the pool with a man and a woman sitting around it. The entrance to the pool is through a little house structure.

   1998.24.054.2

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Brandon Ridge Apartments - Brandon Ridge Apartments located on Brandon Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia. These were two story brick apartments with a swimming pool with a rock structure and chairs surrounding the pool with a man and a woman sitting around it. The entrance to the pool is through a little house structure.

   1998.24.054.1

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Christ Lutheran Evangelical Church, early 1950's - A black and white photograph of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church located at 2011 Brandon Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia (at the corner of Brandon Avenue and Grandin Road), in the early 1950s. This photograph is taken from across Grandin Road, and shows the church entrance and the stone sign.

   1990.69.250

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Christ Lutheran Evangelical Church, early 1950's - A black and white photograph of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church located at 2011 Brandon Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia (at the corner of Brandon Avenue and Grandin Road), taken in the early 1950s. This view of the church, taken from across Grandin Road, shows the entrance and steeple.

   1990.69.249

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. Colonial Yorktown Apartments - A black and white photograph of the Colonial Yorktown Apartments, located on Brandon Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia. Typical Roanoke Valley apartments, brick buildings with white entrances on each one, with several automobiles in front, with trees in the back of the buildings.

   1998.24.050.1

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Colonial Yorktown Apartments - A black and white photograph of the Colonial Yorktown Apartments, located on Brandon Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia. Typical Roanoke Valley apartments, brick buildings with white entrances on each one, with several automobiles in front, with trees in the back of the buildings.

   1998.24.050.2

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Franklin Road Railroad Bridge - Black and white photograph of the Norfolk & Western Railroad bridge over Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia. Overpass itself is at the intersection of Franklin Road, Brandon Avenue, and McClannahan Street branches off to the left underneath the overpass. Telephone poles line the edges of the street, which goes underneath the railroad overpass. The roof of a building This overpass today has been extended to accommodate a four lane Franklin road with a median between. The wall structure at the right edge of the image is still intact.

   2024.32.19

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. Lakewood Pond - A black and white photograph of Lakewood Pond with swans and ducks surrounded by trees. Houses in the distance. Pond is now a part of Lakewood Park on Brandon Avenue.

   1981.77.15

   Record Type: Photo

   
10. Lakewood Pond, looking west - A black and white photograph of Lakewood Pond with swans and ducks surrounded by trees. Houses in the distance. Pond is now a part of Lakewood Park on Brandon Avenue.

    1981.77.24

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. Side View of Christ Lutheran Church - Side view of Christ Lutheran Church located at the corner of Grandin and Brandon. Known as the "green church with the red door." An example of Gothic Renaissance Architecture. Sanctuary built 1949. Fellowship Hall addition, 1976. Architect, Harold Waggoner & Associates. Building constructed by Lionberger Construction.

    1990.69.1085

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. Towers Shopping Center - A black and white aerial photograph, dated November 1, 1961, of the newly opened Towers Shopping Center, located at Colonial Avenue and Brandon Avenue, in Roanoke, Virginia. The lower level is shown, facing Brandon Avenue. In the foreground is the Brandon Road Amoco Service Center and Fast Service Laundry & Cleaners (across the road from the service station). In the background can be seen the Roanoke City Mills, Victory Stadium, Graves-Humphreys Inc., Roanoke Memorial Hospital, and Mill Mountain.

    1998.24.078

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. Towers Shopping Center, circa 1961 - A black and white photograph of Towers Shopping Center, located on Colonial Avenue and Brandon Avenue, in Roanoke, Virginia, taken circa 1961. Towers Shopping Center is a two-level strip mall and featured a small interior mall with escalators to connect the two levels. It opened on October 12, 1961, just a few months after Crossroads Mall opened. The mall was named for the WDBJ television and radio towers located on the site and visible in the photograph. The photograph shows what is known as the lower level, which faces Brandon Avenue. Some of the businesses there included High's Ice Cream, A & P Grocers, Woolworth's, and People's Drug.

    1998.24.076

    Record Type: Photo