Starr Hill
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The Holt Building
115 Fourth Street NW

In 1909 Charles B. Holt, now known for his “Rock House” on Preston Ave., established an “Umbrella Hospital” and furniture repair business here. The building, now gone, at various times housed a barber shop, real estate entrepreneurs, T. J. Sellers’ weekly African American newspaper The Reflector, and Richmond Beneficial Life Insurance Company, which was managed by Sellers and later by Eugene Williams.