Where am I? (Part 15)

Much to your relief, I’m sure, this is the last installment in our series about Richmond landmarks and other places.

The image above is not of a landmark. It’s not even public property. But the place sure is interesting. I probably took notice of it for the first time three decades ago. It’s a corner property. Your job is to tell me what two streets intersect at that corner.

You’ll either know or you won’t know. I doubt that the Internet will be of much help to you. But I could be wrong.

If you think you know, click on the word comments below to give your answer.

Becky got the answer to Part 14 right. The image is of the statue atop Jefferson Davis’ grave at Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery, one of the most handsomely landscaped and serene places in Richmond. I set out last week looking for a different grave to photograph, but I came across the Davis plot and changed my mind.

The life-size bronze statue of Davis, created by George Julian Zolnay, was placed on the gravesite on Davis Circle in 1899. Zolnay, who died in 1949, was a Hungarian-American artist who was known as the sculptor of the Confederacy.

Hollywood Cemetery, however, is not the first place that Davis was buried. He was first interred in New Orleans, where he died in 1889. In 1893, His widow, Varina Davis, had his remains dug up, brought to Richmond, and reburied here.

Unlike other former Confederate officials, Davis was not a U.S. citizen when he died. He was specifically excluded from U.S. government resolutions restoring such rights after the war. His citizenship was not restored until 1978. In signing the law, President Jimmy Carter referred to the measure as the last act of reconciliation in the Civil War.

If you’re new to this exercise on how well you know Richmond, you can start from the beginning by clicking here.