POEM + ADDRESS

1725 JeffersonPark Avenue

A college house remembered through weeds, ants, worn surfaces, small urgencies, and the incremental life growing through all of it.

AUTHOR NARRATION

Hear the poem.

Read by A.F. King in the original English.

1725 Jefferson Park AvenueA.F. King · English narration

THE ADDRESS

Return to the house.

The exact address makes this one of the collection’s most directly recoverable places.

INTERACTIVE MAP1725 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, Virginia

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STREET VIEW

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THE PROPERTY

What changed, and what stayed recognizable?

Older photograph of 1725 Jefferson Park Avenue.
01
Then

An older photograph of the house or apartment, if one survives.

Current photograph of 1725 Jefferson Park Avenue.
02
Now

A current view for direct comparison with the remembered place.

UVA / CHARLOTTESVILLE

The lives inside the address.

Personal photographs can supply the human scale that a map and building facade cannot.

Personal photograph from the author's UVA era.
01
UVA era

A personal photograph from the period.

A second personal photograph from Charlottesville.
02
Charlottesville

Another image associated with the house or college years.

Architectural or domestic detail from the property.
03
A surviving detail

Floorboards, paint, pantry, doorway, or another concrete remnant.

A NOTE THAT MAKES NO SENSE UNTIL IT DOES

Hear the UVA cheer.

The brief book note—“wahoowa!”—can become a living piece of campus culture rather than a footnote readers have to decode.

YOUTUBE EMBEDUniversity of Virginia Wahoowa cheer

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READER DISCUSSION

Which address still contains an earlier version of you?

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