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Neighborhood Profile: North Highland Park

North Highland Park is one of Richmond’s quintessential streetcar suburbs. In 1891, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway (known now simply as “the streetcar”) expanded north from Downtown, crossing Bacon’s Quarter Branch on the Fifth Street Viaduct to reach Highland Park. The neighborhood was largely built out by the 1930s. Highland Park was part of the …

Neighborhood Profile: Chestnut Hill – Plateau Historic District

Wedged into a 148 acre strip of land on the northeast border of Richmond above Shockoe Hill Cemetery is the Chestnut Hill – Plateau Historic District, a unique and often overlooked neighborhood in the city also known as Highland Park Southern Tip. The first structure of note in the area was that of a sprawling, …