Artist Jeff Suling. Charlottesville 1954.

Framed and matted Print.

If you would like me to ship the artwork with the glass I will gladly do so but I will not accept responsibility for damage during shipping. Thanks for your consideration.

Slot in the back with the following:

In the 1950's, Downtown Charlottesville was a hustling and bustling "Main Street

USA" right out of a Norman Rockwell painting! The Paramount Theatre, built in 1931, was

still a thriving movie house. Main Street was converted into a pedestrian mall in the mid-

1970's.

If you stand on the corner of E. Main St. and 2nd St. E., looking east, you will

recognize many of the buildings seen in this ink drawing. The most dramatic change from

this view is probably the fact that the buildings adjoining the Paramount Theatre were

razed to create the Central Place on the Downtown Mall. Many of the other buildings are

still standing today and appear much the same as they did in the 50's. Storefronts change

with the times, but most upper stories remain basically the same as when they were first

built. This scene was drawn from a photograph taken by Gitchell's Studio and included in

the book, Charlottesville and the University of Virginia - A Pictorial History, by Fred

I. Heblich and Mary Ann Elwood (The Donning Company /Publishers).

Artist Jeff Suling has lived in the Charlottesville area since 1965. Although educated

in music, art has been a great hobby most of his life-especially drawing old houses,

buildings, and towns. Several of his ink drawings have been published in the Fluvanna

County Historical Society Bulletins.

He is currently the Fine Arts Coordinator of

Charlottesville Public Schools.