Two storey brick rowhouses with cast iron porches, and the streets the Apple TV+ series Swagger filmed through.
What Jackson Ward looks like
Two storey brick rowhouses run in unbroken rows along the side streets, most with cast iron porches across the full front. Some porches carry a grape leaf pattern in the ironwork, and cast iron cresting tops the roofline on the later houses. Fronts are pressed brick or stucco, set behind yards ten feet deep or less, many closed off by iron fences.
The street grid is narrow and mostly regular, broken only by Brook Road, which crosses on an old diagonal trace. Second Street has stayed the one fully commercial street for generations, with part of Third Street also lined in storefronts. Sidewalks are brick, laid in a herringbone pattern, with granite curbs along most blocks. Interstate 95 runs along the eastern edge.
Second Street holds the , an Art Deco rebuild from 1947 after an earlier fire. On East Clay Street, the rises four storeys in stone pilastered Georgian Revival, the largest commercial building in the area. A few blocks over, the 's round corner towers and castellated brickwork stand at Leigh and St. Peter, its tall windows shuttered behind white panels.
has a columned portico and a cupola topped in four spires on West Leigh Street. On North Third Street, Italianate rowhouses such as 510 North Third Street pair columned porches with bracketed cornices. Smaller frame cottages on sit off the main grid, some resurfaced in asphalt siding made to look like brick.
Shot in Jackson Ward
The Apple TV+ series Swagger filmed through these streets for its Richmond-set scenes. The production, a contemporary basketball drama, does not identify a particular block.
Swagger, 2021 to 2023
Swagger filmed in these real streets, alongside Maymont and Rocketts Landing elsewhere in Richmond. Neither source names a particular block.
Cast iron porches over narrow rowhouses give Bywater a density of ironwork close to this area's own, the closest match outside Virginia. Dauphine Street and Royal Street carry the tightest run of matching porch patterns. Bywater's houses run lower than these rows, single storey shotguns mixed among the two storey doubles. A tighter frame on the porch line holds the match best. Try searching cast iron porch rowhouses now.
The Victorian District in Savannah, Georgia
Two storey brick rowhouses with decorative porches and small iron fenced yards line streets south of Forsyth Park in a similar late Victorian scale. The narrow lots and shared walls read close to this area's own in a street level frame. Savannah's blocks carry more mature trees crowding the frontages, so a tighter street frame keeps the extra width out of shot. Try searching Victorian rowhouses with porches now.
Cannonborough-Elliotborough in Charleston, South Carolina
Narrow lot rowhouses with iron porches and fences share a similar scale in this neighborhood north of Calhoun Street, with pressed brick fronts close to this area's own. Its houses run a little taller in places, closer to three storeys than two. Charleston's piazzas run side facing rather than street facing, so a full porch shot is harder to match here and works best in a tighter frame. Try searching narrow lot iron porches now.
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