Facing the Blackwell St side wall of the event space. On the 3rd floor of the Richards Building at the corner of Blackwell St & N Sussex...

In the continuing effort to revitalize the Richards Building, the exterior color scheme is getting a refresh! A new color palette has...

Many changes have taken place over the last few months here at the Richards Building. The most recent and charming of these updates are...

The Richards Basement is meant to be a place where artists of all backgrounds can come together to teach, share, learn, and make art,...

Perhaps the coolest thing to come out of our participation in Dover Art Week 2024 was three great murals. These murals provide an...

As anyone driving south on Sussex Street may have noticed, there are some new holes in the big brick wall on the north side of the...

[Photo credits: Glad Marketing LLC, AutoHD Creative Studios, and Fresco Arts Team] Ever since we decided to seriously explore the option...

As discussed in previous blog posts, we are seriously exploring how to create a community art space in the basement of the Richards...

We've always loved the old photos of the Richards Building festooned with bunting for Memorial Day parades, and this year we determined...

Our plans for the Richards Building took a step forward recently when our proposed facade improvements, as seen in the rendering above,...

Where was the Newberry's lunch counter? And what did it look like? (And is it coming back??) To be clear, this picture shows a different...

It has been a quiet couple of months, but we have a variety of work planned for this spring. First up, next week(!) we will start...

Many thanks to friend of the building Rob B, who gave us the heads up that, in 1882, a young lawyer named Mahlon Pitney appears to have...

As noted earlier, one of our current projects is trying to uncover the original brick walls by removing plaster and other finishes that...

This great old colorized postcard shows Blackwell Street with the trolley cars of the Morris County Traction Company prominently featured....

Not everything we find comes from 1 West Blackwell Street. We've also found: Matchbook from Crescent Grill on East Dickerson Street....

Our findings certainly support the idea that people used to smoke alot -- in multiple locations, we have uncovered different tobacco...

We stumbled across this old picture in an old newsletter from the Dover Area Historical Society, where it was described as the oldest...

When we started removing interior finishes in the retail space along Blackwell Street, there were three very attractive exposed columns,...

JJ Newberry's was located in the Richards Building for roughly 50 years, so it is not surprising to find a bunch of artifacts from the...