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Roughly bounded by Hampton Boulevard, 23rd St., Granby St., and 38th St. 36°52′29″N 76°17′28″W / 36.874722°N 76.291111°W / 36.874722; -76.291111 ( Park Place Historic Boundary increase approved June 5, 2017
Historic Districts in Norfolk. Many of Norfolk's neighborhoods, buildings, and landmarks have notable national and local historic significance. The city has four Locally Designated Historic Districts, Ghent, Downtown, West Freemason, East Freemason, and Hodges House (consisting of a single structure). [1]
Norfolk skyline. The history of high-rises in Norfolk, Virginia, began in the early 1900s with the construction of such structures as the 12-story Royster Building in 1912. [1] The skyline of Downtown Norfolk remained relatively low to mid-rise until the 1960s which brought the construction of the 23-story Bank of America Center in 1967.
Park Place is a neighborhood in the western half of Norfolk, Virginia. Its boundaries are roughly Granby Street on the east, Colley Avenue on the west, 23rd Street on the south and up to (and including the southern half of) 38th Street to the north. Within these boundaries Park Place is made up of 4 historic subdivisions; Virginia Place, East ...
State Route 164 (SR 164) is a 7.27-mile-long (11.70 km) primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia that connects the northern parts of Suffolk and Portsmouth with Newport News and Hampton via Interstate 664 (I-664) with Downtown Portsmouth and Norfolk through either the Downtown or Midtown Tunnels.
State Route 152 extended east on present secondary SR 704 from SR 10 (now SR 10 Business) east of Smithfield past Battery Park to Center Street in Rescue. [2] Just under half of the route was added to the state highway system in 1930 as an extension of State Route 507, [3] and in 1932 it was extended to Rescue. [4]
Colonel Hugh Drysdale [1] (died 22 July 1726) [2] was an American governor of colonial Virginia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College Dublin . [ 5 ] More officially, his title was Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia . [ 6 ]
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, now known as The New Saint James Holiness Church of Christ Disciples, is a historic Episcopal church in Norfolk, Virginia, United States.It is a frame, gable-roofed building with two contiguous sections: 1) the sanctuary built in 1886; 2) and the fellowship hall (originally called the "parish house") built in 1912.