{"nrhp_refnum":"02000591","name":"Brookland Park Historic District","other_names":["VDHR No. 127-5898"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Griffin, Fendall, Hanes, Garland, North, Barton, Lamb, Cliff Aves., Norwood, Hooper, Essex, Brookland Park.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.57237084050004,"lon":-77.43288185416412,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential and commercial historic district in the Northside of Richmond, Virginia, made up of several late-19th and early-20th-century streetcar-era subdivisions, the earliest and largest platted in 1890. It includes 1,836 contributing and 294 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The text provided is mostly the architectural description (Section 7), and the Section 8 statement of significance is not included in the excerpt. The description presents the district as a cohesive streetcar suburb with consistent builder-designed Foursquare, Colonial Revival and Craftsman houses, a commercial center at North Avenue and Brookland Park Boulevard, and landmark churches and schools.","narrative":"Brookland Park is a streetcar-suburb neighborhood in Richmond's Northside, assembled from several subdivisions platted from 1890 onward. Its streets form a regular grid lined with sidewalks, mature trees and rear alleys that serve one-story garages and sheds. Most of the housing is modest and builder-designed: two-story American Foursquares and bungalows with Colonial Revival or Craftsman details, along with some duplexes and small apartment buildings. A few earlier Greek Revival, Italianate, Victorian and Queen Anne houses are scattered through the district. At the center, where North Avenue meets Brookland Park Boulevard, a commercial area developed around the old streetcar turn, with brick and stucco shops, a former bank, and the two-story Brookland Inn. Large Classical Revival and Gothic Revival schools and churches from the 1920s act as landmarks, and two small triangular parks add open space. The district contains 1,836 contributing resources, including 1,162 main buildings and 674 outbuildings, reflecting a consistent scale, setback and character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century American Movements: Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic residential, school and religious functions continue today; some buildings have been altered, such as replaced porches and added siding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.382383-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6789/41678906/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02000591.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000591/80bf7639d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000591/80bf7639d0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brookland_Park.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brookland_Park.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678906","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookland_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16847285"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/brookland-park-historic-district-02000591/"}