For though the downtown end of this lovely old thoroughfare has lapsed into decay, many beautiful mansions, dating from long ago, are to be seen a few blocks out from the busier portion of the city.
Among these should be mentioned the Whittle house, the H.N.

Castle house, and particularly the exquisite ivy-covered residence of Mr.
Barton Myers, at the corner of Bank Street.

The city of Norfolk ought, I think, to attempt to acquire this house and preserve it (using it perhaps as a memorial museum to contain historical relics) to show what has been, in Norfolk, as against what is, and to preach a silent sermon on the high estate of beauty from which a fine old city may fall, in the name of progress and commercial growth.
To the credit of Norfolk be it said that old St.Paul's Church, with its picturesque churchyard and tombs, is excellently cared for and properly valued as a pre-Revolutionary relic.

The church was built in 1730, and was struck by a British cannon-ball when Lord Dunmore bombarded the place in 1776.

Baedeker tells me, however, that the cannon-ball now resting in the indentation in the wall of the church is "not the original." When I say that St.Paul's is properly valued I mean that many citizens told my companion and me to be sure to visit.