Thursday, 12/08/2011
Wednesday, 12/07/2011
Reynoldstown Historic District — at the northeastern edge of Winston-Salem in 1919, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company established the neighborhood today known as Reynoldstown. The development was started during World War I for the purpose of reducing the housing shortage in the fast-growing industrial city and was directed primarily towards Reynolds employees. In 1917 the company purchased about eighty-five acres known as the Old Cameron Lands, giving the area its original name as Cameron Park. Reynoldstown was never a "mill village" or industrial village in location or purpose, even though most residents were employed by Reynolds. The neighborhood was far from the tobacco factories and was designed to help tobacco workers become homeowners. [Winston‑Salem, Forsyth County, NC]
Tuesday, 12/06/2011
Active Adult Community Resales
Two of most-popular Over-55 communities in Bucks County, PA (based on the number home resales over recent months) are the Villas at Shady Brook and Flowers Mill, both located in Middletown Township.
Monday, 12/05/2011
New Britain Walk is a residential subdivision of detached single family homes in New Britain Township, Bucks County, PA built by Toll Brothers built ca. 2005.
Winding Brook is a residential subdivision of detached, single family homes in Bensalem Township, Bucks County, built ca. 1983.
The Knolls is an Active Adult (55-plus) townhome community in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY.
The Knolls at Hillcrest is an Active Adult (55-plus) subdivision of detached, single family homes in Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT.
Sunday, 12/04/2011
Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District — development of these neighborhoods was fueled by the extension of the streetcar line into the area by 1901 and the completion of the Roanoke and Southern Railroad on the eastern edge of the district in 1892. The Sunnyside development was platted in 1892 and several industries located there by 1900. H.E. Fries, a Salem industrialist and entrepreneur, was involved in platting Sunnyside. Fries also led two of the manufacturing firms, and eventually came to own the streetcar company. Additionally, Fries was part of the company that platted the Central Terrace development in 1912. Aimed at middle-income residents, Central Terrace is located immediately west of Sunnyside. While many of the industrial buildings in the Sunnyside-Central Terrace Historic District have been destroyed, the district still retains its character as a mixed use neighborhood with a handful of industrial and commercial buildings as well as a well-preserved collection of historic houses and a strong collection of historic institutional buildings including four period revival style churches and a fire station.
Saturday, 12/03/2011
West Salem Historic District — the development of the neighborhood began with 18th century and early 19th century farmsteads on Salem's "outlots." With the pronounced growth in the textile industry in Salem during the late nineteenth century, modestly scaled workers housing was built in the Apple, Albert, and Wachovia streets area. This development coincided with the establishment of a middle-income residential area a few blocks southeast on Poplar Street. Growth during the late 1910s and into the 1930s followed typical suburban models with the construction of a large collection of Craftsman Bungalows. Similarly, the modest amount of new construction and expansion that came during the 1930s through the mid-1950s was often in the popular Minimal Traditional style. One of the most important aspects of the early 20th century growth was the development of a large number of neighborhood stores. The District maintains one of the best collections of historic commercial buildings in the city.
Just Sold by Keller Williams Real Estate Bucks County South
Vermilion Hills, (Levittown) 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on Valentine Lane in Falls Township, (Bucks County) for $217,000
Pennsbury Heights, (Levittown) 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on Louise Drive in Falls Township, (Bucks County) for $292,500
Neighborhoods in Stark County, Ohio.
Friday, 12/02/2011
Just Sold by Keller Williams Real Estate Bucks County South
North Park, (Levittown) 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on Nightingale Lane in Falls Township, (Bucks County) for $181,000
Thursday, 12/01/2011
Just Sold by Keller Williams Real Estate Bucks County South
Nottingham Village, 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch on Windsor Drive in Bensalem Township, (Bucks County) for $179,000
Trowbridge, 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath townhome on Newbury Court in Upper Southampton Township, (Bucks County) for $195,000
Norriton Woods, 4 bedroom, 3-1/2 bath colonial on Pierce Road fin East Norriton Township (Montgomery County)for $213,000
Waughtown-Belville Historic District — with the coming of the railroad and streetcar into the area near Belview, west of Waughtown, in 1892 and 1901 respectively, industry and residential development flourished; first in the Belview area and eventually spilling over into Waughtown. Waughtown was linked to the Belview area by the streetcar and residential development in the form of modestly sized platted neighborhoods that sprang up along the car route. The Waughtown-Belview area evolved into a suburb of Winston-Salem that flourished and continued to grow dramatically through the 1920s and again in the post-World War II era. The district is at once a study in the development of small communities on the outskirts of the Town of Salem and an illustration of the burgeoning industrial presence in Salem and its environs by 1910. Touched by streetcar and automobile suburban development.
Wednesday, 11/30/2011
Washington, District of Columbia — a congressional act of July 16, 1790, empowered the president of the United States to appoint three commissioners of the District of Columbia to layout the city and oversee the construction of government buildings. Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) and Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) surveyed a diamond-shaped area measuring ten miles on each side and encompassing the forks of the Potomac River and its Eastern Branch, the Anacostia. Forty stone markers, each a mile apart, were erected to mark the boundary from the celestial calculations of Banneker, a self-taught astronomer of African descent, and one of few free blacks living in the vicinity. Within this 100-square-mile diamond, which would become the District of Columbia, a smaller area was laid out as the City of Washington.
Northampton Crossing [Bucks County, PA] is a subdivision of approximately 145 single family residences built by Trafalgar House circa 1999. During construction, Beazer Homes acquired Trafalgar House.
Tuesday, 11/29/2011
Early 20th Century Automobile Suburbs — the rise of private automobile ownership stimulated an intense period of suburban expansion between 1918 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. As a result of the increased mobility offered by the automobile, suburban development began to fill in the star-shaped city created by the radial streetcar lines. Development on the periphery became more dispersed as workers were able to commute longer distances to work, as businesses moved away from the center city, and as factories, warehouses, and distribution centers were able to locate outside the railroad corridors due to the increased use of rubber-tired trucks.
Monday, 11/28/2011
The Ardmore Historic District, located southwest of downtown Winston-Salem, is an early 20th century suburban neighborhood constructed as the city's first automobile suburb beginning about 1910. The large number of garages in the Ardmore Historic District attest to the importance of the automobile in the development of the neighborhood. Unusually large in size, Ardmore consists of several separately platted developments under more than five names that gradually coalesced to become a single, large neighborhood. Initially marketed to the new group of upper-middle income businessmen and professionals, the neighborhood also developed areas of modestly sized dwellings for the city's burgeoning middle-income residents. Physicians, attorneys, insurance agents, managers, factory foremen, and meat cutters and their families all resided in Ardmore with little social stratification. Their dwellings are an excellent collection of popular architecture from the early to mid 20th century.
See also: National Register Historic Districts in North Carolina.
Friday, 11/25/2011
Thursday, 11/24/2011
The Holly Avenue Historic District — Of the several residential sections in downtown Winston-Salem around the turn of the twentieth century, only this District remains intact. The prominent Cherry Street neighborhood has seen its stately homes torn down or converted to businesses, and Fifth Street's "Millionaire's Row" is now lined with office buildings, gas stations, and parking lots. Thus the area that had been an oasis of trees and springs throughout the nineteenth century has become a residential island in downtown.
Wednesday, 11/23/2011
The Washington Park Historic District was designed by Jacob Lott Ludlow in 1891 and developed largely after 1900. The neighborhood is one of North Carolina's finest examples of an early 20th century streetcar suburb. Once a hilly hunting ground for the Moravian settlers of Salem, Washington Park is now a quiet, tree-shaded neighborhood with broad lawns and a wide variety of architectural styles from the early twentieth century. It is significant in the history of Winston-Salem as one of the early residential suburbs developed as a result of the streetcar, reflecting the city's development from a small business center to one of the leading manufacturing centers of the South. It contains the residences of many of Winston and Salem's most prominent leaders of the period. The district further represents the city's increasingly urban character and the growing numbers of individuals in middle and upper income brackets and as such is a symbol of the affluence of the boom times the city enjoyed in the early decades of the 20th century.
Tuesday, 11/22/2011
College Hill Historic Residential District (updated) — A number of the buildings built on College Hill between 1890 to 1920 were designed by architects of the period of regional and national prominence. The most noteworthy on the national level was the firm of McKim, Mead and White and Joseph Huston. McKim, Mead and White designed 200 High Street which reflects the eclectic mix of architectural styles prevalent of the period and is a well-preserved example of that firm's residential work. Joseph Huston designed the College Hill Presbyterian Church in 1896. Huston is well known for his designs of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. The College Hill Presbyterian Church is a well-preserved example of his church work in a Romanesque Revival mode. By far, the single most influential architect on College Hill was William March Michler. Michler, a local architect, designed and built and/or rehabilitated thirty-nine residences on College Hill between 1898 and 1934. [Easton, Northampton County, PA]
Monday, 11/21/2011
New Hampshire Indians — in general, the New Hampshire aborigines conformed to the general pattern of the eastern woodland Indians. Living in wigwams rudely constructed of bark and skins, they ranged the forest hunting and fishing while their women cultivated the near-by fields. Hunting was carried on by means of the bow, spear, and "culheag" or log trap. Fish were taken at weirs, in nets, or by the spear aided by the flare of a pine knot. In agriculture the Indians had made enough progress to be of invaluable aid to "the white man when he came."
Sunday, 11/20/2011
Massachusetts Indians — the remote ancestors of the Indian tribes in Massachusetts were a hunting and fishing people without agriculture. They had learned to fashion several varieties of stone implements, but did not use either tobacco, pottery, or axes. These early people were probably related to the Beothuk red Indians of Newfoundland, and burial places belonging to their culture have been unearthed at Marblehead and near Fresh Pond in Cambridge. Excavations at Grassy Island in Berkley on the Taunton River indicate the presence of an ancient village, established by the depth of the salt peat overlay as being at least one thousand years old.
Just Sold in Bucks County, PA
Village Shires [Beacon Hill], 2 bedroom, 1 bath first floor condo on Beacon Hill Drive, Northampton Township;
sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South.
Saturday, 11/19/2011
The West End Historic District is one of the most fully-realized and intact examples of a turn-of-the-century streetcar suburb in North Carolina, retaining to a remarkable degree the integrity of its primary period of significance, 1887-1930. The late 19th-early 20th century urban neighborhood is defined by its picturesque landscape features — including a system of curvilinear streets, terraced lawns with stone retaining walls and steps, and parks — which take full advantage of the dramatic hilly topography of the site, and by its rich and varied collection of architecture reflective of the West End's period of development.
Just Sold in Montgomery County, PA
Roslyn, 4 bedroom home with 2 full and 2 half baths on Zachary Road, Abington Twp; sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County Central.
Friday, 11/18/2011
Just Sold in Bucks County, PA
Cobalt Ridge [Levittown], 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on Cactus Road, Middletown Twp; sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South.
Wednesday, 11/16/2011
Recently Sold Homes
These Bucks County, PA homes were sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South.
Orchard Hill [Northampton Township]
4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath home on Arbor Road.
Old Mill Woods [Middletown Township]
3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath home on Old Mill Drive.
Tuesday, 11/15/2011
5 Most-Affordable Newtown Neigborhoods (Detached Singles)
Newtown Township in Bucks County, PA is popular with commuters traveling to the county seat, Doylestown (less than 15 miles), Princeton, NJ (less than 20 miles) and Philadelphia (less than 30 miles). A local real estate relocation expert identified the five most-affordable single-family neighborhoods in Newtown (based on today's asking prices) as: Country Bend, The Ridings of Newtown, Newtown Crossing, Newtown Place, and Newtown Grant. Newtown is served by the Council Rock School District. Entry-level homes in these neighborhoods range from 3 bedrooms, 1-1/2 baths to 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths with asking prices from $328,000 to $415,000. See: Council Rock School District Neighborhoods. Call Keller Williams Bucks County South at 267-852-8000 for expert advice on buying or selling a home in Newtown.
Norwich, Vermont — Generally, the men whose names appear on the charters (the grantees or proprietors) were not the ones who settled the new land, but were the older and more established inhabitants of their Connecticut towns; the younger men, those with the strength and skills to be pioneers, to build sawmills and gristmills, to clear the forests, were the ones to undertake the hardships of the move. In 1763, a few settlers came to Norwich and located close to the river and in the Pompanoosuc area.
Monday, 11/14/2011
Recently Sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South
Sycamore Ridge, 4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath, detached single on Maplewood Drive.
Red Cedar Hill, 4 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath, detached single on Red Cedar Drive.
Indian Creek, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, detached single on Indigo Road.
Drexelwood, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, detached single on Drexel Road.
Appletree, 5 bedroom, 2 bath, detached single on Allanthus Lane.
North Dakota — Euro-American settlement in North Dakota did not effectively begin until the 1870's, due in large measure to the area's location well north of established transportation routes west of the Mississippi. In 1873, however, the Northern Pacific Railroad reached Bismarck, followed by the Great Northern (to Minot) in 1887. Construction of these lines facilitated emigration more directly from the east; heretofore would-be settlers had come via Nebraska and South Dakota.
Sunday, 11/13/2011
Heron Watch is a residential subdivision of detached singles built ca. 2005 located in Upper Makefield Township between River Road and the historic Delaware Canal.
Recently Sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South
Newtown Gate, 4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath, detached single on Grant Street.
Fairless Hills, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, detached single on Austin Drive.
Langhorne Gables, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, detached single on Delaware Avenue.
Margo Gardens, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, detached single on Gary Drive.
Hulmeville Terrace, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, detached single on Main Street.
Saturday, 11/12/2011
Most-Affordable Lower Makefield Neigborhoods (Detached Singles)
Lower Makefield Township in Bucks County, PA is popular with commuters traveling to Philadelphia, Princeton and New York City. A local real estate broker identified the most-affordable single-family neighborhoods in Lower Makefield (based on today's asking prices) as: Milford Manor, Valleywood, Pine Brook Farms, Penn Valley Manor and Hickory Hills. Lower Makefield is served by the Pennsbury School District. See: Pennsbury School District Neighborhoods. Call Keller Williams Bucks County South at 267-852-8000 for expert advice on buying or selling a home in Lower Makefield.
Just Sold
2 bedroom, 2 bath townhome on Sterling Road in Brookstone, Lower Makefield Township; sold by Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South.
Friday
, 11/11/2011
The Centreville-Fentress Historic District is an example of a rural farming community that developed a small commercial core, which grew with the addition of a road linking the community to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, and the Norfolk and Elizabeth City Railroad in the 1880s. The community was established along a major 17th century north-south land route between Norfolk and Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The area remained primarily rural until the 1880s, when the addition of the railroad and link to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was established. The community grew with the sale of tracts of land concentrated along the convergence of the major transportation routes. [Chesapeake, VA]
Townhomes For Rent in Newtown (267-852-8000)
Bucks County, PA. There are townhomes available to rent in the following Newtown neighborhoods: Newtown Walk, Kirkwood, Newtown Grant, Headley Trace, and Eagle Ridge. Rentals range from $1,300 (2 bedrooms, 1 bath) to $2,300 per month (3 bedrooms, 2‑1/2 baths).
Call Keller Williams Real Estate, Bucks County South at 267-852-8000.
Thursday, 11/10/2011
Centerville Historic District — Centerville was one of several small rural communities that developed during the second quarter of the 19th century as growth spilled over from the community of Waughtown, which was settled by about 1806 to the southeast, and from the older Moravian town of Salem, founded in 1766 to the north. The name Centerville comes from the village's location mid-way between Salem and Waughtown. During the first half of the 19th century, the area that would become Centerville was wooded and occupied only by the home of Augustine H. Sheppard (no longer extant). Sheppard served several terms in the United States House of Representatives from the 1820s through the 1840s. He purchased forty-one acres east of the intersection of Vargrave and Waughtown streets from the Moravian Church in 1842 and built a large house. Although little is known about the early settlers of Centerville, the community was in existence by 1876 when it appears on E. A. Vogler's map of Salem and Winston. Situated between the Old Plank Road and the Waughtown-High Point-Kernersville Road, the village in 1876 consisted of four streets: Fayetteville Street and Main Street (now Waughtown Street) running roughly east to west and two cross streets, Chapel and Center streets. In 1886, a Sunday school was established in Centerville by Salem's Home Moravian Church and the cornerstone for Centerville Chapel was laid in August of that year.
Saturday, 10/29/2011
The North Cherry Street Historic District, an extension of the historic Boston Cottages neighborhood, is located north of Winston-Salem's center-city. It is in an area that was cut off from the remainder of the historic Boston Cottages (Boston-Thurmond) neighborhood by the construction of University Parkway in the 1960s. The District lies primarily along North Cherry Street and is bounded by 14th and 23rd streets with a small number of properties being located on 17th Street, Lincoln Avenue, and Pittsburg Avenue. The topography of the area is hilly, rising to a relatively high peak with a commanding view of the city skyline at 23rd Street. [Winston‑Salem, Forsyth County, NC]
Friday, 10/28/2011
The Old Salem Historic District, covering an area some three blocks wide and six blocks long at the southern edge of Winston-Salem, is an authentic and well-preserved example of an 18th century, planned community. Established by the Moravians in 1766, Old Salem (then Salem) grew with the surrounding piedmont region and rapidly became its chief commercial and industrial center. The Moravian buildings, two-thirds of which survive reflect not only the German origins and communal organization of their builders, but also their gradual absorption of English and later American styles of architecture and society.
Thursday, 10/27/2011
The North Cherry Street Historic District is a collection of six representative examples of early 20th century residential architectural styles dating from about 1900 to 1930. Included are examples of the late Victorian Colonial Revival and Bungalow styles. The George Virgil Fulp House (131 North Cherry Street; ca.1915) is one of the best examples of the Neoclassical Revival style, and the R.C. Morris House (134 North Cherry Street; ca.1930) is one of the better examples of the Bungalow style in Kernersville. The area was the home of a number of prominent local citizens who were involved in banking and furniture manufacturing. The District conveys the atmosphere of a turn-of-the-century neighborhood, with a collection of diverse, intact styles. These houses illustrate the town's social history during the period 1900-1930. [Kernersville, Forsyth County, NC]
Wednesday, 10/26/2011
The South Main Street Historic District is a six-block-long section containing a significant concentration of historic buildings dating from the formation of this crossroads community in the early 19th century, through its development as a railroad town in the 1870s, its late 19th century industrial boom, and the diversification of its economy as an early twentieth century commercial center. Among the 54 principal buildings are 30 houses, dating from the 1830s to 1930; 7 stores and other commercial buildings dating from the 1880s to 1930, 2 of the originally established churches of the settlement, with graveyards, and 1 remaining tobacco factory.
Tuesday, 10/25/2011
The Salisbury Street Historic District consists of several blocks of mostly residences on both sides of tree-lined Salisbury Street south of Lexington Road.
The District comprises the physical remains of the village of Mocksville, which pre-dated the establishment of a newly-platted county seat in 1839 just to the northeast of the existing village, it was one of the town's two primary residential areas in the nineteenth century and until the 1930s. The earlier village was mostly located along the Salisbury Road, now Salisbury Street, and included a tavern (advertised for sale in 1829), part of which may be incorporated in 330 Salisbury Street. [Mocksville, Davie County, NC]
Monday, 10/24/2011
Neshaminy Falls is an Active Adult (55 plus) community of manufactured homes by the McKee Group built primarily during the 1980s. [Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, PA]
The North Main Street Historic District contains Mocksville's premier residential area of the late 19th and early 20th centuries on and adjacent to North Main Street. Also within the district are Mocksville's first public school, the 1911 Mocksville Graded School, the brick 1896 First Methodist Church, and the Masonic Picnic Grounds, home of one of the central Piedmont's most important social events since 1883. The District is Mocksville and Davie County's most distinguished collection of residences constructed between ca.1840 and 1940.
Sunday, 10/23/2011
The Oaklette Historic District is an example of an early 20th century planned, streetcar suburb. The Oaklette Realty and Investment Corporation was formed in August 1905. Its purpose was to buy and sell parcels of land, and build houses for sale. They limited their saleable lots to 5 acres. On December 29, 1904 the Norfolk Suburban Railroad had completed the trolley line between Oaklette and Washington Point, which continued to Norfolk. The opening of the trolley signified Oaklette's connection with the city. Oaklette's building continued into the 1920s with modest bungalows constructed on various lots throughout the neighborhood. Building had ceased just prior and during the World War II period in Oaklette as large parcels were held within families. This caused many lots to remain open until the post-World War II period. During the 1950s, families subdivided parcels or sold off smaller parcels, which fueled building in Oaklette. Oaklette remains a desirable community for middle-class families today and many of the descendents of the original families reside within its boundaries. [Chesapeake, VA]
Saturday, 10/22/2011
The Sunray Historic District (Sunray Agricultural Historic District) is a planned agrarian community of Polish immigrants dating to the early 20th century. Poles who immigrated to the United States were encouraged by prospects of work in industrial centers, mining colonies and agricultural communities from New York to Chicago. The land on which Sunray is located was purchased by a real estate developer, and in conjunction with shipping agents out of New York City who assisted with the relocation of Polish immigrants, they created a Polish agricultural community on undeveloped tidal marshes of the Great Dismal Swamp. The plan of the community is based upon traditional grid planning concepts common to the 19th century in urban areas. The colony thrived from its arrival in the 1910s, draining and farming the land, building a church and school, and forming a community organization to protect residents' interests. Located between Portsmouth and Suffolk, access to these major cities was via railroad connections located to the north.
Residential subdivisions the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, NY
Dowerskill Village — 3-4 bedroom detached singles and 2-3 bedroom townhome built during the 1970s and 1980s; Milltowne Plaza — 3-4 bedroom detached singles built ca. 2006-2011; Skycrest Elm Estates — 3-4 bedroom detached singles built ca. 1975-1978.
Friday, 10/21/2011
The South Norfolk Historic District — begun as a streetcar suburb and retaining its suburban residential character the District represents the establishment and growth of a primarily residential community between 1890 and 1937. This was an important period for the surrounding communities because railroads finally reached their full potential here and other industries developed along the waterfront, creating complete recovery from the depression that followed the Civil War. The District is a cohesive area of houses, churches, schools, and commercial buildings that help illustrate the rapid development of South Norfolk from a streetcar suburb of Norfolk to an independent town.
Town of Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Thursday, 10/20/2011
Neighborhoods of Clayton County, Georgia
Neighborhoods of Fayette County, Georgia
Wednesday, 10/19/2011
The Haymount Historic District, situated on a rise overlooking the town below, is one of Fayetteville's most intact residential neighborhoods. Centered on Hale Street, Hillside Avenue, Athens Avenue, and Hay Street, the district contains forty-one structures which illustrate the development of residential architecture in Fayetteville from c.1817 to c.1950. All of the major national architectural trends during this time span are represented, from the Robert Strange Town House, c.1817, which is a fine two-story example of Federal architecture, to the Smith-Lauder House, c.1853, a frame Greek Revival house with a side-hall plan and pedimented roof and portico, to the Etta Bell Clark Monaghan House, c.1900, a delightful one-story Victorian cottage with pyramidal roof, wraparound porch, and sawnwork. The twentieth century is well represented also with a fine collection of Colonial Revival houses, such as that built by Charles G. Rose in 1911, and numerous bungalows. [Cumberland County, NC]
Neighborhoods of Warren County, Kentucky
Neighborhoods of Olmsted County, Minnesota
Neighborhoods of Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Tuesday, 10/18/2011
Monday, 10/17/2011
The Faison Historic District contains a significant number of architectural resources dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s which represent popular commercial and residential styles of each successive period. The most noteworthy houses in the Faison Historic District are the large, two-story residences which exhibit Greek Revival, Italianate, or Queen Anne style elements such as double-story porches, square and turned posts and balustrades, brackets, and patterned shingles, dating from the antebellum period through the late nineteenth century. The consistently high quality of the designs is attributable to the presence of the railroad, since many of the structural and decorative elements were mass produced in urban factories, shipped by rail to regional building supply companies, and made available to local contractors. [Town of Faison, Duplin County, NC]
Neighborhoods of Limestone County, Alabama
Frank Lockwood., architect, 1865-1936
Sunday, 10/16/2011
The Warsaw Historic District, laid out in an orthographic plan dating to 1847, contains a significant number of architectural resources dating from the late 19th century to the 1940s which represent popular commercial and residential styles of each successive period. These styles, which are represented throughout the county in both rural and town contexts, exhibit Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style elements such as porches and porticos, square or turned posts and balustrades, brackets, and patterned shingles. Dating from the antebellum period through the late 19th century, the consistently high quality of the architecture is attributable to the presence of the railroad which brought building materials from urban factories to regional sites, and by local manufactures such as the J.H. Pierce Company situated along the railway line just north of Warsaw. [Town of Warsaw, Duplin County, NC]
Neighborhoods of Benton County, Arkansas
Neighborhoods of Carroll County, Arkansas
Neighborhoods of Christian County, Missouri
Saturday, 10/15/2011
Kenansville Historic District — Kenansville, established as the county seat of Duplin County in 1818, boomed in the two decades prior to the Civil War into a "flourishing and dashing" little town, supporting a number of schools and other cultural institutions. Growth of the village has been negligible since this boom period, and the present fabric represents one of the most homogenous groupings of Greek Revival buildings in the state. The dwellings and churches which compose the Kenansville Historic District not only correspond in style, but the similarity of detail is so marked that they may have had a common master builder. The frame buildings are designed in an unusually heavy, plain Greek Revival idiom with such distinctive local features as cantilevered front porch balconies, an abundance of secondary porches, often latticed, and accommodations in floor plan to the humid climate of southeastern North Carolina. [Kenansville, Duplin County, NC]
Bayview Estates is a 1960s subdivision of detached, single family homes in Alameda, California.
Neighborhoods of Alameda County, California
Friday, 10/14/2011
The North Third Avenue Historic District comprises a collection of houses ranging from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, along with a 1928 church. The houses exhibit a variety of architectural styles including a traditional triple-A form, a boxy Foursquare, a Neo-classical Revival, and several Bungalows. The residential neighborhood is enhanced with the addition of the Romanesque/Moorish First Baptist Church. [Siler City, Chatham County, NC]
Thursday, 10/13/2011
East Raleigh Street Historic District is an early 20th century residential suburb; a collection of well-maintained middle- and upper-income housing that was not planned, but developed gradually over a rather lengthy span overlapping several stylistic periods. Spread out on curving streets with spacious lots and generous setbacks, Siler City's earliest suburb evoked rural associations, yet was within convenient commuting distance to the city. The District is one of the best preserved early suburban neighborhoods in Siler City. [Siler City, Chatham County, NC]
Neighborhoods in Albany County, New York
Neighborhoods in Dutchess County, New York
Neighborhoods in Rensselaer County, New York
Neighborhoods in Niagara County, New York
Wednesday, 10/12/2011
West High Street Historic District — contributing also to the feeling, design and setting of the District's historic time and place are narrow streets, sidewalks, granite curbs, brick and granite retaining walls, broad lawns, old trees and other mature plantings. The O. Arthur Kirkman House and Outbuildings at 501-503 West High Street maintains its historic gardens covering over one and a quarter acres, representing the last surviving urban "estate" in High Point, a city which once had many homes with large lots that incorporated extensive gardens. [City of High Point, Guilford County, NC]
Neighborhoods in Seminole County, Florida
Neighborhoods in Allen County, Indiana
Tuesday, 10/11/2011
Haverford Reserve is a residential subdivision of townhomes Haverford Township, Delaware County, PA
Monday, 10/10/2011
Sherrod Park Historic District — Sherrod Park is a three block historic district containing forty-four Tudor, Craftsman, Classical Revival and eclectic middle-class houses built primarily in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The subdivision, platted in 1926, was the venture of Archibald Sherrod, High Point industrialist and developer, and was one of several subdivisions that developed in the North Main Street vicinity as a result of the trolley line that began operating in 1910. The district is a well-preserved middle class automobile suburb of the late 1920s and a locally significant collection of period revival style houses, built from mail-order plans rather than from custom plans drawn by area architects. Three-fourths of the houses in the District were built before 1941. The district is a well-preserved and vital link in High Point's early 20th century suburban history.
The Legends at Mantua is a residential subdivision of 38 detached, single family homes by Suncrest Development built beginning ca. 2009. [Mantua Township, Gloucester County, NJ]
Sunday, 10/09/2011
The Oakwood Historic District is the only survival of that city's downtown middle-class residential development between 1902 and 1927. Oakwood is the only residential neighborhood of substantial scope, constructed within the original one-half mile radius of the central city, to survive relatively intact. The District contains turn-of-the-century, pre-suburban residential architecture which includes the only surviving collection of Queen Anne style houses left in High Point. It also displays some of the best surviving examples of early downtown Colonial Revival structures, as well as two of the finest Bungalow/Craftsman style houses found in the city.
Mountain Meadows is an Active Adult (55-plus) residential community of approximately 280 townhome condominiums and detached singles built beginning 1996. [City of Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon]
The City of Medford is located in Jackson County, Oregon, of which it is the county seat. Originally settled in the late 1840s and early 1850s, the original impetus for development in the region was the early 1852 discovery of gold nearby.
Neighborhoods in Jackson County, Oregon
Saturday, 10/08/2011
The Whitsett Historic District is a community which emerged from institutional origins. The lifestyle of the citizens as well as the built resources focused on an educational core. Whitsett was a pocket of academia and sophistication which developed in the midst of an agrarian culture. It survives as a community which retains much of its original look. The houses of Whitsett are not simply independent family homes, but dwellings that were part of an interconnected community originating from educational aspirations. Collectively, the resources shape streetscapes and landscapes that recall a community of spirited citizens whose work and living reflected the Progressive Era's doctrine of social improvement through education. [Town of Whitsett, Guilford County, NC]
Friday, 10/07/2011
White Oak New Town Historic District — White Oak New Town was built all at once, about 1920, by the Proximity Manufacturing Company, under which name the Cone family cotton mills were operating at the time. Its addresses first appear in the 1921 Greensboro city directory, although the community was not actually encompassed by city limits until 1923. The need for additional housing — the White Oak Mill already had hundreds of houses arrayed in regular rows in villages around it — was probably necessitated by the 1,000-loom expansion of the mill in the early 1920s. One hundred hollow-tile walled, stuccoed houses, all of which still stand, were built. [City of Greensboro, Guilford County, NC]
The area that is now San Diego (San Diego County, CA) is known to have been occupied by humans for more than 10 millennia. Burlingame and Islenair are two, locally-designated residential historic districts located in the City.
Neighborhoods in San Diego County, California
Thursday, 10/06/2011
Fisher Park Historic District — Fisher Park was the first Greensboro suburb planned and developed around a park and one of the earliest park suburbs in North Carolina. Its development — spurred by the railroad and trolley, industrial enterprise, and real estate speculation — charts the hopes of the expanding city in the 1890s and the attainment of those hopes in the teens and twenties. The suburb also established patterns of community planning that were to be followed elsewhere in Greensboro throughout the 20th century. Home to some of the city's most successful businessmen in the early 20th century, the the District features many of Greensboro's finest residences; four of its dwellings are individually listed in the National Register for their architectural significance. Its many bungalows, some large, some modest in size, are among the best examples of the style in the city.
Neighborhoods in Davidson County, North Carolina
Wednesday, 10/05/2011
The Summit Avenue Historic District (also known locally as the Charles B. Aycock Historic District) grew out of the textile and real estate interests of industrial magnates Moses and Ceasar Cone and an agreement between the brothers and the city of Greensboro to grade and pave Summit Avenue. The major industrial force in Greensboro at the close of the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century was the textile mill empire of the Cone brothers. With their mills, the Cones and their partners erected housing for thousands of mill operatives. They also developed property for middle- and upper-class individuals beyond the bounds of the mill villages. The most successful of these real estate enterprises was the Summit Avenue neighborhood, which was developed on part of the land purchased from North Carolina Steel and Iron, between the Proximity mill and downtown. In 1895 the undeveloped neighborhood held cultivated fields, land grown up in old field pines, clay pits excavated for making bricks for the Proximity mill buildings, and perhaps one small house.
Neighborhoods in Chatham County, North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Cumberland County, North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Forsyth County, North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Guilford County, North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Tuesday, 10/04/2011
The West Side Historic District is an intact collection of residences representative of the period from the 1860s to 1951. These houses range from 1860s seasonal houses of coastal South Carolina residents to several distinctive Revival houses from the 1920s and 1930s designed by Hendersonville's premier architect Erie Stillwell.The first development of the Historic District took place beginning in the late 19th to early 29th century with scattered farmhouses and summer homes being among the earliest buildings. Formally platted small subdivisions by myriad local developers began to appear as early as 1906, with the largest development occurring between 1916 and the mid-1920s. [City of Hendersonville, Henderson County, NC]
Monday, 10/03/2011
Lenox Park Historic District — the late 19th to early 20th centuries proved a tremendous boom time for speculative residential real estate development in Hendersonville. Once the railroad arrived in 1879, popular style house plans and the materials to construct houses became more readily available. Local brickyards and sawmills became important commercial enterprises. As the population of both year-round and summer residents began to grow, the need for housing became a top priority and an opportunity for many entrepreneurial developers. Lenox Park was first platted with the name Columbia Park in 1908. The developers were H.S. Anderson, S.F. Wren, J.W. Streetman, and R.F. Burton and the Columbia Park Land Improvement Company. H.S. Anderson, an attorney and real estate developer, began buying land in Hendersonville as early as 1890. He personally owned all of the land later platted as Columbia Park, transferring ownership to the development company in 1909. [City of Hendersonville, Henderson County, NC]
Sunday, 10/02/2011
The Hyman Heights/Mount Royal Historic District — Hyman Heights, developed in 1905, was one of the earliest large subdivisions to be located to the north of downtown. Just to the southwest was the Oakland Park area, developed by V.L. Hyman, in 1890.[6] Further to the south side of downtown Hendersonville, Columbia Park was laid out in 1907-1908. Another subdivision which was laid out at approximately the same time as Hyman Heights was Sunset Heights, platted in 1908. Many other neighborhoods were being developed into the early 1900s, but Hyman Heights was one of the largest. Like many other subdivisions in Hendersonville, Hyman Heights deeds had restrictive covenants placed on them. As Hendersonville continued its major growth period through the 1920s, additional subdivisions were platted. One of these, Mount Royal, was laid out on July 15, 1923 and covered approximately sixteen acres. In contrast to the grid street plan of Hyman Heights, this neighborhood, which was located just to the northwest of Hyman Heights and adjacent to it, was planned with a curvilinear street design which closely followed the steeper topography and included seventy-eight buildable sites. An August 1923 newspaper article noted that the "...division of the property and the location of streets and lanes have been arranged with remarkably good judgment, the skill of the designer being greatly aided by the contour of the land..."
Neighborhoods in Henderson County, North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Mobile County, Alabama
Saturday, 10/01/2011
The Druid Hills Historic District is one of the few 1920s planned suburban communities in Hendersonville that developed into a thriving community. While many neighborhoods were platted in the 1910s and 1920s all over the city and the county, few of them developed after the economic bust which began in 1926. The Druid Hills neighborhood was also designed with a curvilinear street pattern by a prominent landscape architect, Earle Sumner Draper, making it unique in comparison to many neighborhoods which still continued to utilize a typical grid pattern. The first section was platted on July 10, 1923. Sections to the east, west and north were laid out in 1925. Most of the homes were built by 1926, with the majority of the development occurring by 1945.
Neighborhoods in Dane County, Wisconsin
Friday, 09/30/2011
The Holloway Street Historic District is among the few surviving portions of Durham's most fashionable late nineteenth century neighborhood, originally identified by one of its most attractive streets, Dillard Street. As the finest early residential expression of the tremendous success of the city's young tobacco industry, the neighborhood began in the late 1860s at the east edge of the downtown area and by the 1880s was expanding down Holloway Street. The major landholders who spearheaded the development of the district were members of some of Durham's pioneering families. Many of the city's leading industrialists, financiers, merchants and professionals built handsome Queen Anne and classically derived period revival style houses throughout the District from the 1880s through the 1920s. [City of Durham, Durham County, NC]
Town of Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin — Native Americans were the first human inhabitants of land that is now Springfield. Evidence of their camps and burial grounds remain today. The first white settlers arrived in 1841. Many were former factory workers in England, greatly challenged by the wild country they found here.
City of Alpharetta, Fulton County, Georgia
Thursday, 09/29/2011
Highland Park is an early 20th-century residential neighborhood in Gloucester City, Camden County, NJ. The neighborhood is located south of Johnson Park and west of Exit 1C on Interstate 76. Recent sales in the neighborhood include a 1955 1-1/2 story, 2 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath home that sold for $140,000.
Neighborhoods in Essex County, Massachusetts
Wednesday, 09/28/2011
The Best Place to Live Cheaply — Forbes (www.forbes.com) recently published this list with the top spot going to the City of Sandusky (county seat of Erie County, Ohio). The Forbes article introduces Sandusky as "... a city with million-dollar water views and a whole lot of $100,000 houses."
Neighborhoods in Erie County, Ohio
Tuesday, 09/27/2011
The Cleveland Street Historic District is among the few surviving portions of Durham's most fashionable late-nineteenth century neighborhood. As the finest early residential expression of the tremendous success of the city's young tobacco industry, the neighborhood began in the late 1860s at the east edge of the downtown area and by the 1880s was expanding down Cleveland Street. The major landholders who spearheaded the development of the district were members of some of Durham's pioneering families. Many of the city's leading industrialists, financiers, merchants, and professionals built handsome Queen Anne and classically derived period revival style houses throughout the district from the 1880s through the 1910s. Since the destruction of the earliest portions of the neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s, the Cleveland Street Historic District stands as one of Durham's most significant concentrations of architecturally and historically distinctive houses of their day.
Wednesday, 09/21/2011
The Morehead Hill Historic District is a collection of housing important both for its architecture and for the unique way in which it developed as one of Durham's first suburbs. Its initial development was strongly affected by early landowners, the Proctors and William Gaston Vickers. The Proctor heirs' disposition of their undeveloped land at the north end of the district was a classic reaction to the new trolley line, evident today in the array of popular house types by Durham's growing middle class. By contrast, elsewhere in the district William Gaston Vickers sold parcels of his farm for residential development over a period of five decades, beginning in the 1870s. Among his first buyers were two of Durham's most influential businessmen, banker Eugene Morehead, after whom the neighborhood is named, and industrialist George W. Watts. They purchased several tracts, established the area's exclusive reputation with their adjoining estates, and helped to induce numerous family members and business associates to build their houses nearby. Often construction necessitated removal of an older sound but no longer stylish house to another lot in the vicinity, a common practice unique in its frequency to the Morehead Hill Historic District.
Tuesday, 09/20/2011
Lakewood Park Historic District — the early-20th century suburb of Lakewood Park, located in southwest Durham adjacent to the site of Lakewood Amusement Park in the 2000 block of Chapel Hill Road, is a fourteen-block historic district containing 64 houses, commercial buildings, and a church that retain historic integrity from the ca. 1902 to 1952 time period. It was built by Durham's street railway company at the end of the trolley line in 1902. From its construction until its closing in the mid-1930s, Lakewood Park was known as "The Coney Island of the South" for its swimming facilities, theater/casino, dance pavilion, roller skating rink, bowling alley, and concessions. The community that grew up around the park included houses of modest Queen Anne, Craftsman, and bungalow styles as well as a small commercial district along Chapel Hill Road containing grocery stores, a florist shop, and the Lakewood Baptist Church.
Neighborhoods in DeKalb County, Georgia
Neighborhoods in Houston County, Georgia
Monday, 09/19/2011
The Sunset Terrace Historic District is an intact grouping of six eclectic cottages and associated outbuildings designed by prominent Asheville architect Charles N. Parker and built for Miss Rose Mary Byrne, a tuberculosis patient who came to Asheville for its healthful climate in 1906. The six cottages, built between 1913 and 1920, are all located on Sunset Terrace, and occupy the landscaped 2.3-acre tract acquired by Miss Byrne in 1913. [City of Asheville, Buncombe County, NC]
Neighborhoods in Morgan County, Alabama
Neighborhoods in Montgomery County, Alabama
Sunday, 09/18/2011
The Clingman Avenue Historic District is significant is one of Asheville's most intact surviving representative examples of a historically African American residential neighborhood. The district exemplifies the early 20th-century trend of racially segregating neighborhoods, accomplished initially through shifts in occupancy of existing dwellings and continuing with new construction occupied by African Americans from the time of its completion. The Historic District comprises thirty-three contributing houses and outbuildings primarily on Clingman Avenue and Rector Street. The majority of the houses in the District are simple one-story cottages or bungalows, interspersed with larger two-story houses, built primarily as speculative rental housing. [City of Asheville, Buncombe County, NC]
Neighborhoods in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Neighborhoods in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Neighborhoods in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Neighborhoods in Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Neighborhoods in Wayne County, Michigan
Neighborhoods in Sarpy County, Nebraska
Neighborhoods in Erie County, New York
Neighborhoods in Durham County, North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Lexington County, South Carolina
Neighborhoods in Taylor County, Texas
Saturday, 09/17/2011
The Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District is distinguished from other historic neighborhoods in the city due to the early residents' contribution to the expansion and growth of the lumber mill industry and historic Bend. The district was the primary home of men who were directly associated with the management of the lumber industry, which had a profound impact on the history and the economy of the city. The residents also contributed to the development of other historic subdivisions. Residents of the district included general managers and foremen from the lumber mills, business owners, hotel operators, attorneys and newspapermen. As home to the social elite for the city, many of the residents held political offices such as mayor, city councilmen, and county commissioners. [City of Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon]
Neighborhoods in El Paso County, Colorado
Neighborhoods in Brazoria County, Texas
Neighborhoods in York County, South Carolina
Neighborhoods in Sacramento County, California
Friday, 09/16/2011
The Old Town Historic District reflects the City of Bend's history from 1910 to 1950. Its development directly follows the boom and bust cycle of many towns across the Pacific Northwest. It is a working class neighborhood from the early 20th century. From the neighborhood, residents could walk to work, walk to church or walk to the downtown area for shopping. Children could walk to the two schools in the neighborhood. Over 80% of the homes are affiliated with lumber mill employees from Shevlin-Hixon, Brooks-Scanlon or both. The district has an unusually high concentration of Craftsman style Bungalows.
Thursday, 09/15/2011
The Court Street-Chemeketa Street Historic District is comprised of approximately 38.75 acres located east of the downtown business district of Salem, Oregon, and directly east of the grounds of the state capitol. The District is bounded on the north and east by Mill Creek, on the south between Court and State Streets by the property lines of properties abutting Court Street from 13th Street to Mill Creek, and on the west by the Court Street Closure at 13th Street and the Chemeketa Street closure at 14th street. It is residential with most of the houses having been built during the period 1860-1937.
Wednesday, 09/14/2011
The Gaiety Hill-Bush's Pasture Park Historic District chronicles the growth and evolution of a south Salem area from its origins as a suburban location for large estates and farms to a densely established inner city neighborhood during the historic period 1878 to 1938. Three distinct episodes of peripheral residential development are represented in the district. In the 1880s and 1890s, the area was clearly suburban, with a few houses in the Italianate style occupying generous parcels dotted with fences, outbuildings and fruit trees. In the early years of the 20th century, 1900 to about 1915, the suburban parcels were subdivided and improved with bungalows. Those along the west side of High Street, opposite Bush's Pasture, were erected in solid succession and provide a markedly cohesive perimeter. Development in the neighborhood was completed in the 1920s and 1930s by further infill, particularly on the crest and south slope of Gaiety Hill, near the northwest corner of the Bush family acreage. [City of Salem, Marion County, Oregon]
Neighborhoods in Marion County Oregon
Tuesday, 09/13/2011
The Aurora Colony Historic District contains the nucleus of a major American communal society which developed during the third quarter of the 19th century. The only one of its kind in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, its architecture stands apart in terms of form, detail and stylistic expression. It is the most extensive 19th century architectural grouping in the Northwest built by people with a Germanic background. The Aurora Colony, or Aurora Cooperative Society, was the last of a succession of communistic settlements which was developed under the leadership of Dr. William Keil. Keil, who was born in Germany in 1812, began to attract to himself others of Germanic background and similar belief within a decade of his arrival in the United States in 1831. [City of Aurora, Marion County, Oregon]
Neighborhoods in Contra Costa County California
Neighborhoods in San Joaquin County California
Neighborhoods in Franklin County Missouri
Neighborhoods in Lincoln County North Carolina
Neighborhoods in Lane County Oregon
Neighborhoods in Louisa County Virginia
Neighborhoods in King County Washington
Monday, 09/12/2011
The College Hill West Historic District was developed primarily from 1905 to 1945. The neighborhood is illustrative of the general growth and development that occurred in Corvallis in the first half of the 20th century. Houses date from the turn of the century to those associated with suburban development. The growth of this neighborhood was closely tied to its association with Oregon State University (OSU), which lies to the immediate south. Numerous OSU faculty, staff and students have made the College Hill West Historic District their home, and this relationship is one of its defining characteristics. [City of Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon]
The Benton County Courthouse is understood to be the oldest standing active courthouse in Oregon. It was dedicated on July 4, 1888. Its architectural style is High Victorian Italianate, and it remains in remarkably sound condition.
Sunday, 09/11/2011
The Exchange Place Historic District contains ten closely grouped buildings and three non-contributory structures which are located along Exchange Place, a narrow street one block in length along South Main Street between 300 and 400 South Streets and along 400 South Street between Cactus Place and State Street. This area constitutes Salt Lake City's second major commercial district. The ten buildings were all erected between 1903 and 1917 and employed a protected steel frame, masonry type of construction which was considered "fireproof" and the most progressive method of building for its time. The buildings range from one to thirteen stories tall. The twelve-story Boston and Newhouse Buildings were considered Utah's first skyscrapers. Several styles of architecture and combinations of Salt Lake City, Chicago, and New York City architects are represented.
Saturday, 09/10/2011
The Westmoreland Place Historic District is significant for its association with the planning and development of the residential East Bench of Salt Lake City in the streetcar era and its intact collection of early 20th century housing, particularly Craftsman Bungalows. The District is an example of a designed subdivision built on a streetcar line on the East Bench by out-of-state developers, Earl and Clark Dunshee. The Dunshees were drawn to Salt Lake City by its tremendous growth at the turn of the 20th century. The District was planned as an exclusive subdivision restricted to more affluent buyers and marketed through newspaper advertising. All aspects of the neighborhood were planned and executed by the Dunshees from the sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and trees, to the grand entrance through stone gate houses with grass-covered park areas on either side.
See also: Streetcar Suburbs: 1888-1928.
Friday, 09/09/2011
Grandview and Summit Ridge are residential neighborhoods (built ca. 2005) of detached singles in Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska. This county seat ranked #5 on Money Magazine's 2011 list of Best Places to Live: America's Best Small Towns.
The Salt Lake City East Side Historic District has been created through a boundary increase of two previous districts: the Central City Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1996, and the Bryant Neighborhood boundary addition to the Central City Historic District (Boundary Increase), listed in 2001. The District details a contiguous historic neighborhood to the east and south of the Central City Historic District. Streetscapes within the Salt Lake City East Side Historic District include a mix of wide through-streets and more intimate inner block streets and residential courts. A number of alleys are still in use within the neighborhood, mostly to access garages. [Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah]
Thursday, 09/08/2011
The Yalecrest Historic District is located on the east bench of Salt Lake City, southeast of the business and downtown section. The architectural variety and concentration of period cottages found is unrivalled in the state. The subdivisions were platted and built by the prominent architects and developers responsible for early twentieth century east side Salt Lake City development. It is associated with local real estate developers who shaped the patterns of growth of the East Bench in the 20oth century. The District was initially and continues to be the residential area of choice for prominent men and women of the city.
Gordonsville (Orange County, Virginia) is named for Nathaniel Gordon who kept a tavern there in the late 18th century. Prominent guests who lodged or stopped at the tavern include Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Henry Clay and the Marquis de Lafayette.
Wednesday, 09/07/2011
The Capitol Hill Historic District is the oldest surviving residential area in Salt Lake City. Its streets and houses document over one hundred thirty years of residential construction and neighborhood development. The scale and irregularity of the streets and blocks are not typical of the rest of Salt Lake City, either today or in the past. Rather they were a product of the steep hillside which made the area unattractive for redevelopment and ensured its survival.
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Tuesday, 09/06/2011
The Salt Lake City Northwest Historic District, a primarily residential neighborhood of 824 historic buildings, is both architecturally and historically significant in the history of Salt Lake City, Utah. While the historic housing stock, dating from the 1850s to 1950, is typical of neighborhoods in other parts of the city, the area's simultaneous proximity to and isolation from Salt Lake City's downtown reveals both a pattern of development and a cultural makeup of the community that is unique to this northwest portion of the city.
Friday, 09/02/2011
The Gilmer Park Historic District was developed between 1909-1943, with the majority of building (62%) occurring between 1921-1928. This period of development, just after World War I, is reflected in the postwar construction boom and the predominant use of Period Revival style architecture in the area. The neighborhood itself, with its curvilinear layout, represents a unique variation in subdivision design in the city. It is one of the first subdivisions in the city to deviate from the rectangular grid and follow the national trend toward more organic layouts. [Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah]
Thursday, 09/01/2011
American Fork Historic District — the site of American Fork was first considered as having potential for settlement by two early pioneers, Arza Adams and Stephen Chipman, who camped in the vicinity while traveling to Provo in the summer of 1850. Favorably impressed, Adams and Chipman asked permission from Brigham Young to establish a cattle ranch in the area, but instead were instructed to undertake a survey. Two sections of land were laid out in what was known as the Big Survey, encompassing the early townsite and the riparian area along American Fork Creek. The town of Lehi, a few miles northwest, had recently been surveyed, and this was used as the baseline. [American Fork City, Utah County, Utah]
Located in American Fork are Crystal Cove and Quail Meadows, Active Adult (55‑plus) townhome subdivisions built ca. 2005.
Neighborhoods in Utah County
Wednesday, 08/31/2011
The University Neighborhood Historic District reflects the history of Salt Lake City during a period of growth and changing demographic patterns. The neighborhood largely grew during a periodwhen the city's population doubled (1905-1925) and the economic base shifted from agriculture to industry. By the turn of the century Salt Lake City was no longer an isolated, religious community; it was in the political and economic mainstream of the country. The influx of professionals and the establishment of the University of Utah on its current site in 1900, itself an indication of the progress the city was experiencing, greatly influenced the growth and social fabric of the neighborhood and ensured its viability. The area has been home to many faculty and staff members. Nationally the Progressive Era was effecting social changes through governmental reform and the related City Beautiful movement encouraged the design of public spaces that would improve urban life. The contributions of the people living the University Neighborhood Historic District to the city and associated physical improvements within the neighborhood reflect this national trend. It is a self-contained, self-sufficient neighborhood. This area is one of only a few self-sufficient neighborhoods that developed just outside the core of the City at the turn of the century. The District contains mostly residential buildings built around the University of Utah and incorporates commercial, public, and religious structures to support the residents within the area. [Salt Lake County, Utah]
Tuesday, 08/30/2011
The Avenues Historic District was the first platted section of Salt Lake City to deviate from the original city plan of ten-acre blocks, patterned after the "Plat of the City Zion" provided by Joseph Smith, the founder and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in 1833. The two and a half acre blocks and narrower streets of the Avenues were probably a consequence of the steeper slopes and lack of water on what was known very early as the "Dry Bench." The distinct character of this district is identifiable in the hilly terrain, architectural styles, primarily of the Victorian period, building heights, setbacks, and spacing as well as various landscape elements, such as retaining walls, iron fences, and tree-lined streets.
Monday, 08/29/2011
The Copperton Historic District encompasses most of the Town of Copperton, a planned residential community constructed for employees of Utah Copper Company primarily between 1926 and 1941. The District is a unique combination of company town, planned community and promotional showpiece. Copperton transcends the standard company town image with its carefully planned layout, fully developed amenities and substantial brick and stucco houses. The attractiveness of this "model community" reflected well on Utah Copper Company, and the extensive use of copper on the houses was an overt attempt by the company to advertise the use of its product for building construction purposes. Not only is Copperton the elite of company towns in Utah, it is also the only known historic community in Utah that was architect designed. The quality and scope of the project render it a significant work of Salt Lake City-based architects Scott & Welch, one of the leading architectural firms in Utah at that time.
The Utah Copper Company Mine Superintendents House was the largest and most significant house built in Copperton. It has an irregular, sprawling form, stucco exterior walls, a concrete foundation, and a multiplicity of roofs. Built in 1926, it was the home of the superintendents of the Bingham Copper Mine for almost 30 years.
Sunday, 08/28/2011
Neighborhoods in Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania —
Beech Ridge,
Deer View,
Doe Crossing,
Gateway Farms,
Glasbern Knol,
Greene Hill Farms,
Hillside Estates,
Hynemansville,
Lyon Valley Estates,
New Smithville,
Seiberlingsville,
Seipstown,
Senny Court,
Silver Creek Estates,
Strawberry Ridge,
The Meadows,
Tory Pines,
Watson Heights,
Weisenberg Country Estates, and
Werleys Corner.
Saturday, 08/27/2011
The South Temple Street Historic District was the first stately residential boulevard in Utah and remains today as a reminder of a residential lifestyle that is gone. It served as the only primary east-west route in early settlement days between the city and Red Butte Canyon, and Fort Douglas (established in 1862). Buildings along Third East to Virginia Street are unique reflections of some of the people who have greatly influenced the history and development of the State, including: senators, governors, mayors and other political figures; mining men, who made their fortunes in the small mining towns surrounding the Salt Lake Valley and then used their new wealth to build impressive, ostentatious mansions for their families; and immigrant merchants who became financially successful. Along the street are many fine structures of both architectural and historical significance.
Friday, 08/26/2011
The Evergreen Avenue Historic District is located in East Millcreek Township, approximately eight miles southeast of downtown Salt Lake City. It includes approximately four blocks centered along Evergreen Avenue between 2300 and 2700 East. The historical development of the neighborhood has resulted in an eclectic mix of mostly residential housing stock dating from the 1860s to the present. The District includes 194 primary resources. This total includes two buildings previously listed individually on the National Register: the Oakwood Estate, 2610 E. Evergreen Avenue (listed 1979- 11-16); and the Nathaniel Baldwin House, 2374 E. Evergreen Avenue (listed 1985-05-09). [Millcreek Township, Salt Lake County, UT]
Thursday, 08/25/2011
Depot-Compress Historic District — In response to the rapid growth of Marshall County's bustling agricultural economy, this area became a leading transportation center in the early 1850s. The establishment, at that time, of the Mississippi Central Railroad, which linked north Mississippi with New Orleans, was perhaps, one of Holly Springs' greatest achievements. The District's strategic location on the state's major rail line made it a particularly vulnerable target during the Civil War. Here, General Grant stored supplies for his Vicksburg campaign and was resolutely halted by General Van Dorn's raid on the Depot stockpile, one of the war's most daring Confederate coups. Late in the 19th century, the Depot-Compress Historic District achieved new prominence as the base of the area's largest industry, the Federal Compress Company, a cotton processing concern.
Wednesday, 08/24/2011
The Southwest Holly Springs Historic District is a 50-acre, irregularly shaped neighborhood located south and west of the Holly Springs Courthouse Square Historic District. The area south of the square is laid out in a well-defined grid plan which assumes a less formal pattern west of Craft Street. The District is characterized by tree-lined streets and large, well-landscaped yards. Each of the eighty properties located within the District is used for residential purposes. [Holly Springs, Marshall County, MS]
Tuesday, 08/23/2011
In Moore Township (Northampton County, PA) you can buy a 7,000 sq. ft. colonial for $1.3 million (White Tail Deer Estates), a 2-bedroom "as is, total rehab" for less than $20,000 and about 4 dozen other homes in between. One house even comes with its own church on the same property. Although the township is largely rural (the Blue Mountain reach of the Appalachian Trail weaves back and forth across its northern border) there is a wide choice of more traditional neighborhoods for those who prefer living near (but not in) rural America. In addition to the above-mentioned subdivision, these include: Blue Ridge Estates, Bridle Path Estates, Christian Springs Estates, Clearview Farms Estates, Clewell Place, Copella Estates, Country Meadows, Country View Manor, Country Woodlands, Eagle View Estates, Eden Brook Villa Estates, Eden Park Estates, Evanwood Acres, Grouse Estates, Hickory Hills, Highland Heights, Hilton Hills, Jamond Estates, Krystal Lane, Mink Hollow Estates, Moorestown, Mountain Valley Estates, Northridge, Oaks Mobile Home Park, Parkside Manor, Penn Colony, Pheasant Ridge Estates, Pioneer Village Estates, Scenic View Farms, Sheffield Estates, Southmoore Estates, Steckelhan Estates, Tamenend, Valley View Estates, Valley View Manor, Wunnershee Ackers, Yost Meadows and
Yost Woods.
Monday, 08/22/2011
The Murray Downtown Residential Historic District is a physical reflection of the historic development of the city from its agricultural beginnings through its industrial era and current status as a small suburban city. The buildings within the district represent a wide range of architectural styles and plans popular in the city and the state between 1870 and 1954. They a high degree of integrity. [City of Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah]
Sunday, 08/21/2011
The 3-acre North Memphis Street Historic District is located northwest of the Holly Springs Courthouse Square Historic District. It is the major link between the central business district and Holly Springs' Rust College and Mississippi Industrial College [see entry, below].
Mississippi Industrial College Historic District — The College, established in 1905 as an educational institution for black students, has important associational significance for black history in Mississippi. The campus, of which all pivotal structures constructed during its growth period from 1905 to 1926 survive, displays a high degree of architectural significance representative of the Revival influence in American educational buildings as well as Beaux Arts planning principles popular during the early twentieth century.
Saturday, 08/20/2011
The Southeast Senatobia Historic District is a collection of late-19th and early-20th century house types and architectural influences.The historic character of the District reflects many of the same trends and characteristics of other historic areas of Senatobia, but also had many unique traits and properties that provide its own sense of individual character. It is an important contributor to the overall character of time and place that is unique to Senatobia. [City of Senatobia, Tate County, MS]
Friday, 08/19/2011
The Sandy Historic District is a reflection of the architecture and historic progression of the city from its early days as a mining boom town through its agricultural era and recent growth to become one of the largest suburban cities in Utah. The residential, commercial and institutional buildings within the Sandy Historic District represent the styles and types popular in Utah between c.1875 and 1957. [City of Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah]
Located within the district and individually listed on the National Register are: the Anne P. Marriott House (ca. 1910), the William D. Kuhre House (ca. 1890) and the Louis E. and Florence Jensen Van Dam House (ca. 1908).
Thursday, 08/18/2011
5 Pennsylvania towns on Money Magazine's Top 100 List — the magazine's September issue presents its annual ranking of the America's Best Small Towns.
In Montgomery County: Ardmore (Lower Merion Township, #45), Horsham (#31) and West Norriton (#59); in Chester County: West Goshen (#25); in Allegheny County: McCandless (#46).
The South Ward Street Historic District is an irregularly-shaped residential neighborhood in the south central portion Senatobia, Tate County, Mississippi. The variety and qualities of design among the historic building stock in the District make a significant contribution to the scope of the entire historic environment of the city.
Neighborhoods in Harnett County, North Carolina
Wednesday, 08/17/2011
The Best Place to Live in the U. S.
Located in Boulder County, Colorado, the City of Louisville ranks #1 on Money Magazine's 2011 list of America's 100 Best Small Towns. [money.cnn.com, accessed 8/16/2011]
The Santa Fe Trail is 1,200 miles long traveling through 36 counties in 5 states. it was the first great trans-Mississippi trade route, and the first road to be surveyed west of Missouri.
Tuesday, 08/16/2011
The East Holly Springs Historic District is the largest of the community's three architecturally significant residential neighborhoods. An outstanding collection of the town's finest Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Queen Anne style buildings are located within its boundaries. Salem Avenue, often called "Silk Stocking Avenue" in the late 19th century. [Holly Springs, Marshall County, MS]
Neighborhoods in Blount County, Tennessee
Monday, 08/15/2011
The North Park Street Historic District contains notable examples of side L-plan houses, homestead houses, composite cottages and bungalows. Its Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Minimalist Traditional influences represent a majority of the historic styles found here. The District represents historic architectural qualities which cut across a large portion of the entire history of Senatobia's development as a city.
Neighborhoods in Muskingum County Ohio
Sunday, 08/14/2011
The Riverton Historic District is a significant resource in the areas of exploration/settlement and architecture between 1893 and 1953. The District conveys the spectrum of important periods in the community's history with its settlement characteristics and through its varied architectural styles The Districtis situated at the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley west of the Jordan River, roughly between the intersections of 12300 South and 12600 South on Redwood Road. [City of Riverton, Salt Lake County, UT]
Neighborhoods in Summit County, Ohio
Saturday, 08/13/2011
The Holly Springs Courthouse Square Historic District the commercially developed center of Holly Springs, the seat of Marshall County, Mississippi. The identity of the ic District is derived from the intersection of two east-west and two north-south streets around a central courthouse square. The outer square is bisected by a central north-south street (Center Street), a configuration which provides a strong visual axis for the courthouse (inner) square. An intense rebuilding period on the square during the 1870s was coupled with renewed commerce and the exchange of agricultural commodities, specifically cotton, brokers for which remained in operation on the square (155 South Center Street and 107A Van Dorn Avenue) until at least 1980.
Neighborhoods in Henry County, Georgia
Friday, 08/12/2011
The North Panola Street Historic District is made up of a small group of residential properties located along the west side of Panola Street, between its intersection with West Main Street and Strayhorn Street. The North Panola Street Historic District is composed of four principal residences, constructed over a period of ca. 1875-80 to ca. 1925-30. [City of Senatobia, Tate County, MS]
The South Panola Street Historic District is a collection of twelve principal structures spread out along South Panola Street (U.S. Highway 51) largely south of its intersection with West Tate Street and north of its intersection with Church Street. The District contributes Senatobia's diverse architectural history. The range of styles, building forms and respective construction dates presents a strong sense of time and place that is unique to Senatobia.
Neighborhoods in Alameda County, California
Neighborhoods in Cook County, Illinois
Thursday, 08/11/2011
The College Street Historic District is a collection of 23 principal buildings located along or adjacent to College Street in the City of Senatobia, Tate County, Mississippi. Apart from addresses on College Street are buildings nearby on North Front Street, Ward Street, North Center Street, North Panola Street, and West Main Street. The District is largely residential in character, though two of its key features are the Senatobia High School Auditorium building (303 College Street (a), built 1938), and the Senatobia Presbyterian Church (431 West Main Street, 1927).
Neighborhoods in Knox County, Tennessee
Wednesday, 08/10/2011
The Downtown Senatobia Historic District contains the largest number of 19th century buildings of any historic area in Senatobia. They buildings provide a great sense of the architectural styles, construction techniques, materials and details common to 19th century masonry buildings. In conjunction with the residential areas of Senatobia, the Downtown District of rounds out the individual character of time and place that is unique to this city.
Neighborhoods in Shelby County, Tennessee
Neighborhoods in Williamson County, Tennessee
Tuesday, 08/09/2011
The Myrtle Street Historic District is the best example of a cohesive middle-class residential block as it existed in turn-of-the-century Magnolia. The District's largely unaltered residences and church reflect the less affluent citizenry and less exuberant construction within Magnolia's northern section, and as such are an important contrast to the grandiose development in Southtown. Located in the earliest settled area of Magnolia, this particular section was developed following the construction of the Presbyterian Church of Magnolia in 1881. The church, oriented to the already developed North Clark Street, is a substantial part of the block. It is one of two extant 19th century churches in the city. [Magnolia, Pike County, Mississippi]
The Southtown Historic District is Magnolia's largest concentration and variety of late-19th century residential architecture.
Neighborhoods in Adams County, Colorado
Neighborhoods in Brevard County, Florida
Neighborhoods in Box Elder County, Utah
Neighborhoods in Davis County, Utah
Neighborhoods in Tooele County, Utah
Monday, 08/08/2011
The Quakertown Historic District — located along the principal highway leading from Philadelphia to Allentown and Bethlehem and the crossroads from upper Montgomery County to the county seats in Newtown and Doylestown, the town flourished in a large, flat plain formerly Richland Township, in an area broadly surrounded by challenging terrain of rocky hills, strong streams and extensive swamps. Settled by Welsh Quakers from Lower Gwynedd Township (Montgomery County) by the 1720's, Quakertown maintained a strong connection to communities in central and upper Montgomery County resulting in a unique blend of Quaker and German business entrepreneurship, architectural design and town planning. Preferences for large, solid buildings, encouraging industry to stimulate employment and economy and the egalitarian placement of mixed uses throughout the town are features of this population. Described as "a natural trading center for Milford, Springfield, Richland, Haycock and Rockhill townships," the town was positioned to easily grow to be the largest borough in upper Bucks County. With the arrival of the train in 1857 and the trolley in 1897 Quakertown's regional place in the transportation network garnered it the reference "The Hub of North Penn." [Borough of Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania]
Sunday, 08/07/2011
The Sullivan-Charnley Historic District is significant for its association with two of America's most noted architects, Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) and Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959). The Sullivan-Charnley Historic District consists of six buildings on the adjoining estates once owned by Sullivan and his friends, Mr. and Mrs. James Charnley. At least four of the buildings were designed by the Chicago-based architectural firm of Adler and Sullivan. The definite attribution of the designs of these structures remains a subject of debate. Frank Lloyd Wright assumed credit for the Ocean Springs buildings in his book, Genius and the Mobocracy. Wright was employed in the office of Adler and Sullivan from 1887 to 1893 and was responsible for most of the firm's residential designs during that period. [Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi]
Saturday, 08/06/2011
The Shearwater Historic District derives major significance from association with the life and work of nationally-noted artist Walter Inglis Anderson. The District is the home and atelier of a renowned family of multi-faceted artists which established and continues to operate the famous "Shearwater Pottery." Three of the buildings constitute the most complete mid-nineteenth century waterfront estate now extant in the city (Walter I. Anderson Cottage, "Fairhaven" (Tiffen House or Front House), and Walter I. Anderson Residence/Barn).
The Crossings at Hamilton Station is a community comprised of townhomes, apartment-style condominiums and rental apartments in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, NJ. Contruction commenced in the Spring of 2011.
Ashford Manor is a townhome subdivision built ca. 1991 in Wall Township, Monmouth County, NJ.
Friday, 08/05/2011
Marble Springs Historic District — as a community social center which overlooked the picturesque Old Fort Bayou, the Marble Springs area attracted a number of influential residents of the city as a desirable home site. These included the future mayor F M. Weed whose Queen Anne home at 1007 Iberville Drive was within walking distance of the railroad depot where he was stationmaster. Another was J.B. Garrard, a merchant and city alderman, who built a large Colonial Revival house at 1119 Iberville Drive.
Neighborhoods in Kane County, Illinois
Walk to Train from New Construction in Hamilton, NJ
The Crossings at Hamilton Station is a new development of townhomes, condominium flats and rental apartments in Mercer County.
Thursday, 08/04/2011
The Indian Springs Historic District is significant because of the diversity of architectural forms and styles within its limited number of structures. The Indian Springs, itself, attracted visitors over several centuries and contributed to the development of Ocean Springs as a resort community beginning in the 1850s. [Jackson County, MS]
Neighborhoods in Placer County, California
Wednesday, 08/03/2011
Fountainhead was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 and constructed during the years 1950-1954. The house has been described as one of the most complete residences embodying Wright's concepts of the Usonian House, especially the relationship of the house to the street, entrance positioning, preservation of privacy, integration of interior with exterior, and use of indigenous materials. The name Fountainhead is a reference to the novel by Ayn Rand and is derived from a fountain Wright incorporated into the structure of the house. [Jackson, Hinds County, MS]
Neighborhoods in Providence County, Rhode Island
Tuesday, 08/02/2011
Bellevue (also known as The Longfellow House) is a Greek Revival style one-and-a-half-story wood-frame "raised cottage" above a full-story raised basement of brick construction. Built by local carpenters and craftsmen about 1850, it is one of the most prominent surviving houses of the antebellum period on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the most significant Greek Revival building in Jackson County. [Pascagoula, Mississippi]
The Captain Willie Bodden House (4002 Pine Street) is a Queen Anne cottage that retains its original fabric, providing a tangible link to the maritime industry's impact on the socio-economic development of Pascagoula. Bodden was a prominent sea captain who operated out of the port of Pascagoula.
Neighborhoods in Monroe County, New York
Monday, 08/01/2011
The Lover's Lane Historic District is a cohesive neighborhood of vacation estates which reflect the continued development and popularity of Ocean Springs as a resort community on a grander scale than is encountered elsewhere in the city. The series of bay-front knolls on which the District is situated was the site of Fort Maurepas, the first French settlement along the Gulf Coast established by d'Iberville in 1699. [Ocean Springs, Jackson County, MS]
The Robertson-Yates House, constructed circa 1849-50, is one of the very few extant antebellum homes in DeSoto County. It is a rare surviving example of antebellum architecture and an unusual example in Mississippi of a double-pile, side-hall plan house in a rural setting. [City of Hernando]
Neighborhoods in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Neighborhoods in Montgomery County, Ohio
Neighborhoods in Columbia County, Wisconsin
Sunday, 07/31/2011
The Orange Avenue Historic District contains locally significant examples of building styles that reflects nationwide trends in architectural development extending from the late 19th century to 1945. The District is home to a number of propererties that are also individually listed on the National Register. These include the Captain Herman H. Colle Sr. House, Colle Company Housing, the DeJean House, the George Thompson House, and the Dr. Joseph A. Tabor House. [City of Pascagoula, Jackson County, MS]
Some neighborhoods in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio
Briar Lake, detached singles ca. 1960s and 1970s.
Cherry Ridge, townhome condominiums ca. 1983.
Cresthaven, detached singles ca. 1960s.
Evergreen Meadows, twin townhomes ca. 1970s.
Neighborhoods in Lorain County, Ohio
Saturday, 07/30/2011
The Bertuccini House and Barbershop — the Bertuccini buildings represent Ocean Springs' only surviving examples of this turn-of-the-century home-to-business proximity. The smaller scale of the Bertuccini lot and buildings renders the property more readily recognizable as a unit and is typical of the majority of such units.
Golf Edge Estates, subdivision of detached singles, ca. 2006 in Upper Freeehold Township, Monmouth County, NJ.
Updated in Monmouth County, NJ
Mill Pond, ca. 1988 subdivision of detached, singles.
Long Acre, ca. 1994 subdivision of detached, singles.
Imlaystown, historic village, late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Imlaystown Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1985.
Roosevelt Borough began its existence as an agr-industrial co-operative New Deal Project in 1937.
Jersey Homesteads Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1983.
Friday, 07/29/2011
The Old Ocean Springs Historic District is comprised of several primarily residential blocks situated to the south and west of the central business district of Ocean Springs. With a few exceptions it encompasses most of the properties on Jackson and Washington Avenues between Porter Avenue and Front Beach Drive, all of the properties along the north side of Front Beach Drive between Martin Avenue and Inner Harbor Road, and the properties on the east side of Martin Avenue between Front Beach Drive and Cleveland Avenue. [Jackson County, Mississippi]
Escapes Ocean Breeze is an Active Adult (55-plus) subdivision of detached, single family homes in Stafford Township (Manahawkin), Ocean County, NJ
Neighborhoods in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Thursday, 07/28/2011
The Belhaven Heights Historic District is significant as an eclectic blend of late-19th and early-20th-century residential architecture in Mississippi's capital city. As one of Jackson's most cohesive downtown residential neighborhoods, the Belhaven Heights Historic District is also significant for the homeowners' determination to remain downtown, and their concerted stand against encroaching commercialization and redevelopment. [Hinds County]
The Hinds County Courthouse is an excellent example of Art Deco style art and architecture. Its location can be related to the original Thomas Jefferson inspired plan for Jackson. At the time of construction (1930) it was considered to be a model facility.
The Oaks (Boyd House), a quaint Greek Revival cottage at 823 North Jefferson Street in Jackson, was built prior to the Civil War (possibly as early as 1846) for James H. Boyd, a prominent early citizen of Mississippi's capital city.
Neighborhoods in Shelby County, Alabama
Wednesday, 07/27/2011
The Krebsville Historic District's significance is derived from the collection of middle-class residences built during the Golden Age of Pascagoula when the port, shipbuilding, tourism, and lumbering were flourishing. This collection of homes and their siting impart the feeling of "small town" at the turn of the century (1897-1900). [Jackson County, Mississippi]
Located within the Krebsville Historic District, land on which the Old Spanish Fort is located was part of a concession on the Pascagoula River made early in the eighteenth century by the French government to the Duchesse de Chaumont. In accordance with the stipulation that such grants in the province of Louisiana be colonized and cultivated, a contingent of 300 settlers arrived in January, 1721. Presumably at that time a palisaded complex on the shore of Chatahoula Lake (now Krebs Lake) was erected under the supervision of Sieur Joseph Simon de la Pointe, who had earlier served with Sieur Lemoyne de Bienville, second royal governor of Louisiana. Marie Simon de la Pointe, daughter of Sieur de la Pointe, married Hugo Ernestus Krebs, who emigrated to Mobile from Germany in 1730 and died in 1776 (his will was filed in New Orleans, written in the Spanish language). Bernard Romans, botanist and surveyor in the employ of the British government, gave the following description of the Krebs property in A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (1775):
Neighborhoods in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Tuesday, 07/26/2011
The Front Street Historic District's residences reflect the major trends of Pascagoula's nineteenth century residential architectural development. The Walter Denny House (ca. 1820) and the Dupont-Pelham House (ca. 1836) represent early manifestations of Gulf Coast Greek Revival style and combine several features derived from colonial era Creole construction techniques, such as wide, low galleries, numerous windows and doors opening onto the galleries, and high foundation piers. The Frank Lewis House (ca. 1889) is an excellent illustration of the tenaciousness with which this vernacular Grecian form, which was so well suited to the hot, humid climate, persisted and continued to flourish, even though the style had virtually disappeared in new construction elsewhere. The John B. Delmas House (ca. 1850) is exemplary of the more stately and formal version of Greek Revival popular during the mid-19th century. Representing late-nineteenth century design is the Charles B. Delmas House (ca. 1890-1910) which originally possessed a two-tier portico supported on turned posts (four of which remain) and ornamented by delicate scroll brackets and turned balusters.
Neighborhoods in Clark County, Indiana.
Monday, 07/25/2011
The Hernando South Side Historic District (also known as the Magnolia Historic District) in Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi is composed of 30 resources. At the north end of the district on Center Street is the Tudor Revival Baptist Church built in 1938, and just east of the church is a one-story Greek Revival/Victorian-style house that was built about 1850. Going southward are predominately Craftsman and Colonial-inspired houses on School Street, Park Street, and on Magnolia Drive. The Hernando Memorial Cemetery is at the south end on Magnolia Drive. The Late Victorian Eclectic house of Felix LaBauve, located at 2769 Magnolia Drive, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 [see Felix Labauve House] and listed as a Mississippi Landmark in 1985.
Sunday, 07/24/2011
The Burn, a beautifully detailed and proportioned suburban structure, is the oldest documented Greek Revival residence in Natchez. It was constructed in 1834 as the residence of John P. Walworth, wealthy planter, merchant, banker, and politician. According to family tradition, The Burn received its historic name at the time of its construction — burn is the Scottish word for "brook" was chosen because a small brook originally flowed through the property.
The Neibert-Fisk House was completed ca. 1836 for real estate speculator and developer Joseph Neibert. It was later the home of prominent merchant and philanthropist Alvarez Fisk. The Neibert-Fisk House is a late but highly significant example of the Neo-Classical style first employed in the Natchez region early in the second decade of the 19th century.
Shadyside is a finely executed suburban Greek Revival dwelling, representative of houses built by successful members of the rising middle class in antebellum Natchez. The house was built for Ralph North, attorney, circuit court clerk, legislator, circuit court judge, and author. [Adams County, MS]
Also: Clark County Indiana Neighborhoods
Saturday, 07/23/2011
The Holy Family Catholic Church Historic District is a cluster of historic buildings in the neighborhood surrounding Holy Family Catholic Church (8 Orange Avenue), which fronts onto St. Catherine Street. St. Catherine Street is one of the city's most historic streets and was once a portion of the Natchez Trace, the historic trail that led from Nashville to Natchez. St. Catherine Street begins about a mile from the bluff at the site of the historic slave markets, known as the Forks of the Road, and terminates onto Martin Luther King Jr. Road (formerly Pine Street), the easternmost street of the historic grid plan of the city and the eastern boundary of the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District. The Church is the city's finest example of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. It dominates the district due to its monumental size, its physical form with the sanctuary resting on a fully raised basement, and its siting on a hill overlooking St. Catherine Street. [Adams County, MS]
Friday, 07/22/2011
The Woodlawn Historic District is located in the old northern suburbs of the City of Natchez and shares a common boundary with the Upriver Residential Historic District, listed in the National Register in 1983. Both historic districts trace their origins to the post-Civil War subdivision of antebellum suburban estates into building lots. Although sharing a common boundary, the two districts differ widely in character and density. While the houses in the Upriver Residential Historic District are generally large with generous lots, the houses in the Woodlawn Historic District are generally small cottages on small lots.
Thursday, 07/21/2011
The Hernando North Side Historic District in Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi is composed of 25 resources including the R.C. Clifton House, a Craftsman style house facing Holly Springs Street between East Street and Church Street; houses along East Street from the rear of the Clifton lot to resources on the north side of West Northern Street at its intersection with East; and resources on West Valley Street eastward to its intersection with Northview Street. The Hernando North Side Historic District contains a diverse group of homes including three with Greek Revival, antebellum origins, the town's only full-blown Queen Anne house, a Colonial Revival house and four mid-20th century Tudor Revival examples. A single-pen one-and-a-half-story log house is an outbuilding to the Queen Anne house at 2375 East Street. Several newer, non-contributing houses are also in this district.
Wednesday, 07/20/2011
The Hernando Commerce Street Historic District resources represent the architectural styles of private residences from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the sustained but slow development of the city. They range from late 19th century Victorian-style houses through the spectacular, early 20th century George Banks House (564 Commerce Street), built in the Neo-Classical style to Mrs. Darden Gore's Craftsman Bungalow (446 Commerce Street). With the exception of the Gore bungalow, the western resources are vernacular cottages which appear to have been built in the early to mid 20th century as rental properties, possibly associated with the George Banks Cotton Gin which occupied the present location of City Hall until the 1970's. [City of Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi]
Tuesday, 07/19/2011
The Hernando Courthouse Square Historic District represents the early 20th century development of the City of Hernando. It has been the seat of government of DeSoto County since 1836 and is a good representation of the "central courthouse square" town plan which is also seen in several other Mississippi county seats. Hernando is locally notable as the best concentration of early 20th century commercial architecture in the county.
Monday, 07/18/2011
Downriver Residential Historic District — most of the land in the District, except for the northern edges and the areas south and west of Pearl Street, was part of the antebellum estate of the Nathaniel Harrison family. The Harrison house stood approximately midway on what is today South Union Street, and a brick dependency building stood in the middle of the street itself. The house and its dependency building are depicted on an 1864 map of Natchez and on an 1883 map detailing the extensions of South Union and South Commerce Streets. In 1835, Nathaniel Harrison sold fifteen acres of his property to his son-in-law and daughter, William and Caroline Harrison Harris, for the construction of Ravenna, individually listed in the National Register and included within the boundaries of the District. (see also, within the District, Ravennaside and the Charles Patterson House. [City of Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi]
Sunday, 07/17/2011
Neigborhoods by County
Jefferson County, Alabama
Fairfield County, Connecticut
Cobb County, Georgia
Ada County, Idaho
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Jackson County, Missouri
Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Wake County, North Carolina
Saratoga County, New York
Bexar County, Texas
Berks County, Pennsylvania
Saturday, 07/16/2011
Friday, 07/15/2011
Five of the more than fifty Natchez Mississippi homes that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
- Melrose, built ca. 1845 and located in a community of magnificent mansions, is remarkable for the perfection of its design and the integrity of its maintenance and surroundings. [1 Melrose-Montebello Parkway]
- Cottage Gardens, built ca. 1795 and restored in 1963, is an excellent example of the late Federal style of architecture as it developed in the Lower Mississippi Valley. [816 Myrtle Aveneue]
- The John Dicks House, built ca. 1888, is one of the most architecturally significant residences of post-Civil War Mississippi. [802 North Union Street]
- The Koontz House, built ca. 1836, has been carefull preserved (both the interior and exterior grounds) by the family that continually occupied it since 1845. [also known as Green Leaves, 303 South Rankin Street]
- Airlie, built ca. 1793, is an important example of the early Natchez Planter's Home of the late 18th, early 19th centuries. [9 Elm Street]
Thursday, 07/14/2011
Wednesday, 07/13/2011
Dunleith was built by General Charles Dahlgreen in 1847. (It is now called Dunleith Historic Inn, located at 84 Homochitto Street, Natchez, MS. This 5‑bay, 2‑story residence with full attic and original cellar beneath the dining room, faces east on its 39.8-acre site within the city limits. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
Tuesday, 07/12/2011
The Upriver Residential Historic District represents one of the most architecturally and historically significant collections of mid-nineteenth century, late 19th century, and early 20th century residences in Mississippi. This architectural significance is based on the high degree of architectural finish exhibited by many of the district elements, on their individual architectural integrity, and on the overall integrity of the individual neighborhoods that make up the district. [City of Natchez, Adams County]
Monday, 07/11/2011
D'Evereux (also known as D'Evereux Hall) is located at 170 D'Evereaux Drive, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. Perfection of proportion and academic rendering of its structural and decorative detail make D'Evereux one of the outstanding American examples of the Greek Revival style. The builder of D'Evereux was William St. John a planter born in Maryland in 1800. Elliot was president of the Natchez Protection Insurance Company, chartered in 1829 to insure Mississippi cotton crops from the time of ginning to sale at New Orleans or elsewhere.
The Clifton Heights Historic District is the most architecturally and historically significant collection of late 19th and early 20th century residences in Natchez. Located within the District are the only Natchez examples of the Shingle and Tudor styles as well as some of the town's most outstanding examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architecture. Created in 1888 by the Clifton Heights Improvement Corporation, Clifton Heights was one of the first corporate subdivisions of Natchez. Partners Isaac Lowenburg and Henry Frank, prominent Natchez merchants, acquired the land from the Surget family, whose magnificent mansion Clifton was destroyed by the Union Army during the Civil War occupation of the city. The District derives its primary historical significance, however, from its association with the Jewish community of Natchez. A majority of the residences were constructed for prominent Natchez Jewish families, and the grandness of the residences testifies to the prosperity and prominence of the town's Jewish citizens at that time.
Sunday, 07/10/2011
The Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District occupies the gently rolling surface of a tableland set about 200 feet above the Mississippi River and separated from it by steep bluffs. The bluffs bound the District on the upper west side; the bluff parklands included in the Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District bound the lower west side. The District was originally cut by deep ravines (called bayous locally), which are characteristic of the region. Some of these bayous still exist and form natural boundaries on portions of the eastern and southern sides. The bayous had been filled and the hills had been cut through for streets by the mid-nineteenth century, establishing the present topographical character, with streets that slope gently, often between high steep banks with buildings set on top. The natural boundaries and lack of bayous are some of the qualities differentiating the District from its surroundings.
Saturday, 07/9/2011
The Dougherty Heights Historic District in Black Mountain, North Carolina [Buncombe County] encompasses the residential neighborhood that developed on Dougherty, Kerlee, and McKoy family property to the northwest of the downtown through the early and mid-twentieth century. Silas F. Dougherty, one of the town's earliest businessmen, built a capacious frame house for his family in 1897 on a large tract of land on the north side of State Street. The house operated as a boarding house and tourist home through the first half of the 20th century, run by Dougherty's daughter Sadie and her husband, Alfred Tyson Sr., under the name "Dougherty Heights." The eighborhood began to develop in earnest in the 1910s and attracted many of Black Mountain's prominent families, including business owners, doctors, dentists, educators, and lawyers. The District's historic resources reflect the town's prosperity and periods of growth.
Friday, 07/8/2011
The Haverhill Corner Historic District is a well-preserved town center which displays to an unusual degree the architectural styles and town planning concepts which predominated in rural New Hampshire communities in the early 19th century. The village is the compact trading center of a township which was predominantly agricultural in nature and was otherwise characterized by large, separate farms. As a focus of county government and as the terminus of major transportation routes, the village came to include a wide variety of architectural types, ranging from private dwellings and taverns through school and court buildings, and including stores, offices, and shops. The village remains a remarkably well-preserved example of a prosperous northern New England town center. [Town of Haverhill, Grafton County]
Thursday, 07/7/2011
Residential Neighborhoods
Hernando, MS
Chamberlin Oaks, Fopuntain Gate, Foxwood Plantation, Lakes of Cedar Grove, Morning View, Notting Hill, and Saint Ives
Olive Branch, MS
Cedar Crest, Center Hill Downs, and Fleur De Lis
Wednesday, 07/6/2011
The Lyme Center Historic District is a cohesive village grouping of modest frame structures spanning from the early 19th to the 20th century, unified by quality of setting, materials and workmanship. All of the structures in the District are vernacular in nature, loosely based on popular architectural styles, as interpreted by unknown local builders. The settlement pattern which created a village in the early 19th century is a recurring theme in New England history, born out of the impact of early turnpikes and the quest of settlers for water to power mills and industry. [Town of Lyme, Grafton County, NH]
Tuesday, 07/5/2011
Residential Neighborhoods
Hudson, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Abbotts Farm
Bonnie Heights
Compass Point
Elmwood Village
Fox Hollow
Lockwood Place
Village at Barrett Hill
Woodland Heights
Monday, 07/4/2011
Residential Neighborhoods
Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Adamsville Farm
Daniel Church Estates
Fieldstone Farm
Fogland Beach
Garden Heights
Villages on Mount Hope Bay (Active Adult / 55-plus)
Winnisimet Farms
Sunday, 07/3/2011
The South Montreat Road Historic District in the mountain town of Black Mountain [Buncombe County], North Carolina encompasses the residential neighborhood that developed in the early twentieth century along the road to the Presbyterian Church retreat community of Montreat. The District is characterized by a mix of one- and two-story houses on small (less than one-half acre) lots and a large church facility with extensive grounds.
Saturday, 07/2/2011
The Hebron Village Historic District is a fine example of an early 19th century village built around a spacious central common. Located on a flat plateau near the mouth of the Cockermouth River, the District contains attractive early to mid-19th century and early 20th century buildings the majority of which are residential. [Town of Hebron, Grafton County, NH]
Friday, 07/1/2011
The Lyme Common Historic District is comprised of more than sixty primary structures with assorted outbuildings situated fronting the Lyme Common and the surrounding network of six roads which intersect at the Common. The centerpiece of the District is the common itself, a long narrow open area laid out in an east-west direction. The majority of buildings are residential in nature, constructed originally as single-family residences. In recent years, some, most notably those fronting the common and on Union Street have been converted to commercial use, though care has been taken to preserve the overall residential character. Also included in the District are municipal properties including two school buildings, the Town Office/Library, a Church, cemetery, jail and hearse house. [Town of Lyme, Grafton County, NH]
