{"nrhp_refnum":"03000443","name":"Chesterfield Heights Historic District","other_names":["122-1201"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the E Branch of Elizabeth R, Ballentine Blvd., Sedgewick St. and I-264","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk (Independent City)","county":"Norfolk","state":"VA","lat":36.84325951400004,"lon":-76.25785455597483,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Norfolk, Virginia, along the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River, platted in 1904 as Chesterfield Heights and including the earlier Riverside area. It covers about 85 acres of the original 130 and contains 404 contributing and 106 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The available text describes a cohesive early 20th-century suburb, planned as an upper-class waterfront neighborhood and later expanded for middle-class and wartime workers. It holds Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman/Bungalow and Foursquare houses that show changing tastes between 1904 and 1950. The Section 8 significance statement and criteria are not in the excerpt provided.","narrative":"Chesterfield Heights is a small residential neighborhood on the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia. It was platted in 1904 as a suburb for upper-class buyers, with a slightly irregular grid of tree-lined streets, a waterfront boulevard and a small park. The district also takes in Riverside, a late-19th-century area that was absorbed by 1920. Early development included large Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses, with at least 100 dwellings built between 1904 and 1914. World War I brought an influx of port workers and a second building phase, with about 235 buildings erected between 1915 and 1941, many of them smaller Colonial Revival houses, Craftsman-style bungalows and American Foursquares. The district counts 326 properties, including 308 single dwellings, ten multiple dwellings, two commercial buildings, four churches, a park with a monument and a shipyard. Although some houses have altered materials, the neighborhood retains its overall integrity and its record of suburban growth in early 20th-century Norfolk.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne and Italianate; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Modern Movement/Art Deco; Other/Commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential and still in domestic use. Many dwellings have altered materials, but overall integrity is described as intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.331981-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/6821/41682147/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000443.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000443/60f9590064-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000443/60f9590064-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kimball_east_of_Majestic_in_Chesterfield_Heights.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kimball_east_of_Majestic_in_Chesterfield_Heights.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682147","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterfield_Heights_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16826493"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/norfolk/chesterfield-heights-historic-district-03000443/"}