Sorry I've been away from this thread for a while. Coming back with a tour of Danville, Virginia. A small city (pop ~ 42,000 down from a high of 53,ooo in 1990) located in Southwestern VA. The economy was once quite strong though tobacco and textiles.
Some more info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danville,_Virginia
Aerial view of the core of the city
The warehouse district now called the River District, undergoing some renovations
But more work needed
Nice homes in a historic district
Finally a real gem which was built in the 1860's (on the right in this pic)
I had visited Danville about 15 years ago and walked through this area. I happened upon a woman working on that house who had recently purchased it. She was doing some of the renovation work herself as seen in a pic I took:
There is also a carriage house behind it:
Now to some of the grit
A little house next to the Juvenile Detention Center
What the sign on the fence said
A couple of before and after pics
from 2012
from 2016
from 2012
from 2016
