A Student Rendezvous Since the Mid-1800s

In the early 1900s "The Corner," so named by the University crowd, was but a sparse collection of businesses at the entrance to the University Grounds—literally just a corner. In the intervening years "The Corner" has grown into a bustling commercial district.

Many of "The Corner's" early structures still stand along University Ave.—between 14th and Chancellor Streets—including the C&O railroad bridge (1901), also known as the "Bridge of Scores"; Chancellor's Drugstore (1914), located at 1411-1415; the Corner Building (1814), at 1412; and the Anderson Brothers Bookstore building (1891), at 1415. Two of "The Corner's" institutions are: The Virginian Restaurant (1923), at 1521, one of the oldest eateries in the city; and Mincer's Pipe Shop (1923) which opened at its 1527 address in 1954.

Tree-lined Elliewood Ave. is the city's liveliest dead-end street. Named in 1910 for Ellie Wood Page (1894-1986), whose mother ran a boarding house, Elliewood Ave. became a busy thoroughfare of restaurants and shops in the 1970s.

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