Situated here at Ninth and Grace is St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. General
Robert E. Lee worshipped here whenever he was in Richmond during the War
Between the States, as did President Jefferson Davis regularly. Up an
aisle to this church on Sunday, April 2, 1865, strode a messenger to
President Davis’ pew. Davis quietly left the church. The message told
him that Petersburg had fallen, that Richmond must be evacuated. The
church is filled with memorials of many kinds, and is referred to by
some as “The Westminster of Richmond.” ¶ _Proceed westward on Grace to
Seventh Street._
[Illustration: _St. Paul’s Church_]
Grace Street, for several blocks west, is one of Richmond’s newest
downtown retail shopping centers. Once a residential section, it now
takes its place with Broad Street (one block to the right) as a major
business thoroughfare. ¶ _Turn right on Seventh three blocks to Clay.
Turn left on Clay to Sixth._