Talk:Richmond Main Street Station

Is this relevant?
The top three floors are now occupied by Richmond-based Advertising firm RightMinds (www.rightminds.com). I don't know if this is relevant to this article.--72.73.25.70 03:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Photos available
There are numerous public domain photos available for uploading in the HABS external links that i just added. The photos accompanying the NRHP inventory/nomination document, footnoted from the main text, also are very nice. These photos are 1971 photos by Jack Boucher, a HABS photographer, so they are probably included and available within one of the HABS photo sets. But if not, I could help getting them directly from the NPS Focus system. doncram (talk) 17:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Architectural Style
I see that the National Register of Historic Places nomination form from 1976 has the style as "French Rennaisance" [sic] under item 7. That is not borne out by the supporting text in item 8. The misspelling doesn't fill me with confidence, either. The Schwartz reference lists "Romanesque/Victorian/Beaux Arts" which is cumbersome, but it at least means something, whereas "French Renaissance" seems to apply only to French buildings of the Renaissance, with no revivals. Cstaffa (talk) 07:43, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

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Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District
has added information about the Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District to this article several times and been reverted by. There was a conversation at User talk:Pi.1415926535, at which both Pi.1415926535 and I responded to 2nd ABG, who did not reply there before again adding substantially the same content here. Under WP:BRD, 2nd ABG should justify here on the talk page why this information belongs in this article. Continually adding it without doing so is disruptive. Mackensen (talk) 18:37, 30 October 2023 (UTC)


 * There is a direct connection between the Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District (Shockoe Hill African Burial Ground) and the Main Street Station. The original track which was laid in 1900 by the Seaboard Airline railroad that runs directly to the Main Street Station was constructed upon this burial ground. All trains that run between Main Street Station and Staples Mill Road, run upon this burial ground. All trains that are being planed to run between these two stations are planned to run upon this burial ground. That includes the DC2RVA high-speed rail project, the east-west Commonwealth Corridor, the newly proposed RVA757 Connector, and the six Amtrak passenger trains that have been put into operation since 2021. 2nd ABG (talk) 19:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Additionally, I did reply to Pi. 1415926535 before attempting re add information. I was however not aware of your comments until after my additions were once again deleted from the article. 2nd ABG (talk) 20:22, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 2nd ABG, repeating the same points without addressing what Mackensen and I have said is not a useful way to go about this. Everything I said here is still valid. Information about one historic site (of many) along a rail line that connects to this station is simply not relevant to the station; adding it is undue weight and does not improve the article. That is the primary reason why I have reverted your edits.
 * None of what you have wrote, and none of the sources you have provided, show any special relevance of this historic site to the station or rail line versus the dozens of other sites it borders. All of the government documents you've cited are bog-standard bureaucratic notices; none of them indicate anything unusual about this site different from the others, nor that the affects from the proposed rail project would be unusual. Mitigation of adverse effects is a standard part of projects like this; in the majority of cases, relatively minor mitigations are actually needed to fully preserve historic sites.
 * Again, I understand that the historic site is important to you. However, the way you have been editing is not an appropriate way to add information about it. If you are not able to write about the burial ground in a manner that complies with Wikipedia policy - which includes not writing about in places that are not relevant - you should step back and let others write about it. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:52, 30 October 2023 (UTC)