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 …
Springhill is a tightly-configured, intown enclave of topographical and architectural contrasts. Tree-shaded streets lined with modest-sized cottages and bungalows meld counter-intuitively with riverside cliffs and modern high rise apartment towers. The neighborhood, which contains the only Old and Historic District in Southside Richmond, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Despite …