[2] Franklin Street also runs through the middle of the Monroe Park Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.
West Franklin Street (and its extension, Monument Avenue) has been one of Richmond's most stylish residential addresses since the late 19th century.
[3] In the late 19th century Monument Avenue was laid out as an extension of the 1200 block of West Franklin Street.
[3] At the West end of the 1200 block of Franklin Street stood the Stuart Monument (removed in 2020), depicting Confederate Major General J. E. B.
[3] The Stuart Monument also marks the start of Monument Avenue, a stretch of road formerly memorializing Confederate participants in the Civil War and Arthur Ashe, an international tennis star and Richmond native.