Haithcock House Demolition

This house, located on West Broad Street in Short Pump (West End of Richmond, Virginia), was one of the last old houses left in the area. Practically all others have been demolished to make way for commercial development. The house was built in 1901 and took less than ten minutes to fall to the bulldozer. The video is very appropriately set to Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer."

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Entertainment

Tags:

• house
• demolition
• demolish
• bulldozer
• Short
• Pump
• Virginia
• Richmond
• Haithcock

[6969Wolf6969]

I hope they put up a nice strip mall in its place.

[trev7188]

Unfortunately, yes. Just what we needed, our 50 billionth strip mall here in the Richmond area. They built a La-Z-Boy furniture and a few other worthless or redundant shops in its place.

[regency98us]

Amazing how 8 yrs ago when I first moved here from Baltimore, the Short pump area was trees and across from the freshly dug ground for the mall on Broad St, there was an old car repair shop, and 288 had not creeped up across 250. Same with Charlottesville on Rt 29. It was trees, in the northern part of the county, which now has a mall, hotels, and 7 traffic lights between airport Road and Ruckersville. What was an easy ride north is now stop and go with traffic. Sad to see the country go.

[gubevares]

@davisotj1 haha.. same for my ex's :P

[davisotj1]

I wish that was my ex-girlfriend's house

[regency98us]

That part of Richmond was pretty with the trees. It a shame that they all came down with the old landmarks in order to pave and build stores! Charlottesville is turning in to that too. All it brings is more traffic, more headaches, higher costs and increased crime,

[UltraFlusher]

omg 0:10 whats in the top two windows  scary

[TheCriminalsInAction]

My children are upstairs looking out the window! Oh no! What a terrible parent I am.

[BHATTI44710]

There are a lot of house like this here in Buffalo. Come if you guys wana restore them.

[picklesrule69]

shame..

[JJ2955]

urban sprawl and newer is better! NOT

[jtreign9097]

poor old house i would have restored it. what a fucken shame.