{"nrhp_refnum":"02000532","name":"Colonial Place","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Lafayette R., Knitting Mill Creek, East Haven Creek and 38th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk","county":"Norfolk","state":"VA","lat":36.885273275500055,"lon":-76.28852798675993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Colonial Place is a residential historic district in Norfolk, Virginia, on a peninsula bounded by the Lafayette River, Knitting Mill Creek, East Haven Creek and 38th Street. It was platted in 1903 as a planned suburb and covers roughly 202 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Colonial Place as a planned streetcar suburb with curvilinear streets, traffic circles and parks, shaped by picturesque and City Beautiful planning ideas and the 1907 Jamestown Exhibition's colonial theme. It also holds a large, well-preserved collection of early 20th-century house styles, from Colonial Revival and Queen Anne to Craftsman bungalows. Its growth from an upper-class venture into a middle-class neighborhood is documented through its buildings.","narrative":"Colonial Place is a planned residential neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, set on a peninsula reaching into the Lafayette River. Platted in 1903 by the Sterling Place Company under George W. Dillard, it was laid out with curving streets, tree-lined sidewalks, traffic circles and four small parks. The 1907 Jamestown Exhibition inspired the colonial theme used for the subdivision's name and its streets. Early building was slow, with about nineteen houses by 1911, mostly Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival and Queen Anne. Wartime demand for housing brought roughly 750 more buildings between 1912 and 1941, and the neighborhood settled into a middle-class community. Craftsman bungalows dominate this later phase, with 393 examples. The district now contains about 913 single-family dwellings, 43 multiple-family dwellings, a school, a church and hundreds of garages and sheds. It was listed for its cohesive planning and its range of early 20th-century architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George W. Dillard (developer, Sterling Place Company); builders include Walter Turpin, James Turpin, S.L. McGonigal and Charles C. Fitch","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Revival; Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely in residential use, with single and multiple dwellings, a church, a school and four landscaped parks; many houses have been re-clad in aluminum, vinyl or asbestos siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.636628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/6821/41682145/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02000532.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000532/a905dbcee2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000532/a905dbcee2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delaware_east_of_Gosnold,_Norfolk.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delaware_east_of_Gosnold,_Norfolk.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682145","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5148358"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/norfolk/colonial-place-02000532/"}