N.A. Eggleston Sr.

Portrait Courtesy of Meredith Carrington and Barry O'Keefe

NEVERETT EGGLESTON PLAZA
2nd Street from Leigh Street to Clay Street

Neverett A. Eggleston Sr. was born on September 14, 1898 in Henrico County to Richard and Cora Eggleston. After living in Newburgh, New York for a brief period, he returned to Richmond, Virginia and married Sallie Robertson in 1925. After working as a chef at the Lakeside Country Club, he opened a restaurant called The Lafayette in Jackson Ward. He began to manage the Miller’s Hotel in the late 1930s before purchasing the building and renaming it Hotel Eggleston, which was featured in the 1947 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book. He departed on December 5, 1996 and is buried at the cemetery at Saint John Baptist Church.