The Fan
The Fan is a district in Richmond, Virginia. It is named The Fan because of the way the roads fan out to the west from N. Belvidere St. It is easy to find a variety of boundaries that "define" the Fan, just ask a variety of Richmonders.Photo: Nisansapsali, Public domain.
Photo: Bruce Emmerling, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Museum
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936.
Monument Avenue
Historic site
Photo: Mentes, Public domain.
Monument Avenue is a tree-lined grassy mall dividing the eastbound and westbound traffic…
Branch House
Historic building
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Branch House in Richmond, Virginia, was designed in 1916 by the firm of John Russell Pope as a private residence of financier John Kerr Branch and his wife Beulah Gould Branch.
Localities in the Area
Downtown Richmond
Photo: Bruce Emmerling, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Downtown district of Richmond includes the business district, Shockoe, Jackson Ward and Tobacco Row.
Randolph
Quarter
Randolph is a historically black middle class neighborhood located within the West End of Richmond, Virginia.
The Fan
- Type: Quarter with 13,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Categories: neighbourhood, historic district and locality
- Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.55211° or 37° 33' 8" northLongitude
-77.4649° or 77° 27' 54" westPopulation
13,600Open Location Code
8794HG2P+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2588602117OpenStreetMap Feature
place=quarterWikidata ID
Q5433597The Fan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Dutch: Fan district
- English: Fan District
- English: Fan district
- Italian: The Fan
- Japanese: ファン歴史地区
Other Places Named The Fan
Localities in the Area
- CarverNeighbourhood
- CarytownQuarter
- Scott's AdditionNeighbourhood
- Oregon HillQuarter
- Scott's Addition Historic DistrictQuarter
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page The Fan. Photo: Bruce Emmerling, CC BY-SA 4.0.