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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 ]
Norvella Heights, Norview, Norfolk, Virginia is a neighborhood in the eastern portion of the Norview district of Norfolk, Virginia. Many of the homes that reside in this area were built in the 1950s and are, for the most part, one floor homes with crawlspaces. During the construction of I-64 in Norfolk, the neighborhood was split in two, and I ...
Location of Norfolk in Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be ...
SR 247 intersects north–south thoroughfares Colley Avenue, Colonial Avenue, Llewellyn Avenue, and Monticello Avenue before curving slightly to the northeast at US 460 (Granby Avenue). Three blocks east of US 460, 26th and 27th Streets combine into four-lane undivided Lafayette Boulevard, which crosses the Lafayette River and becomes a divided ...
View north along SR 192 at SR 165 in Norfolk. SR 192 begins at an intersection with SR 165 (Military Highway) in the northeastern part of Norfolk. Azalea Garden Road continues southwest as an unnumbered street toward Downtown Norfolk, east of which the highway intersects SR 194, SR 166, and U.S. Route 58. SR 192 heads northeast as a four-lane ...
The Ghent District is a historic neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia.It comprises Ghent, West Ghent, and Ghent Square. Other portions of surrounding neighborhoods are often attributed to Ghent as an extension of its commerce including Chelsea, North Colley Avenue, and active gentrification into portions of Park Place to the north, labelled 'The Railroad District'.
Norfolk, Virginia's downtown waterfront shipping and port activities historically played host to numerous and often noxious port and shipping-related uses. With the advent of containerized shipping in the mid-19th century, the shipping uses located on Norfolk's downtown waterfront became obsolete as larger and more modern port facilities opened ...
The Riverview Historic District is a national historic district located at Norfolk, Virginia. It encompasses 200 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Norfolk. It developed primarily during the first quarter of the 20th century, as a suburban community north of the growing downtown area of Norfolk.