{"nrhp_refnum":"06000030","name":"Poplar Lawn Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Central Park","125-0094"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of E Wythe and S. Jefferson, from SE of orig. HD to Lieutenant Run, Along both sides of Harrison St. at SW corner","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburg (Independent City)","county":"Petersburg","state":"VA","lat":37.22324190500004,"lon":-77.39952204484783,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 137.7-acre boundary increase to the Poplar Lawn Historic District in southeast Petersburg, Virginia, covering 35 blocks in several areas around the original district. It contains 276 resources, mostly dwellings dating from the late 18th to mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The expanded area is argued to be a mid-19th to early 20th century upper middle-class residential neighborhood tied to the central green of Poplar Lawn. It holds a full range of styles, led by Italianate and Greek Revival, and reflects community development and African American heritage, including churches and a commercial corridor along Halifax Street. It roughly doubles the historic fabric of the previously listed district.","narrative":"This boundary increase adds 35 blocks in four areas around the existing Poplar Lawn district in southeast Petersburg, bringing the total to 137.7 acres and 276 resources. Most are wood-frame single-family houses built between the late 18th century and the mid-20th century, mainly in the second half of the 19th century and the early 1900s. Italianate and Greek Revival designs dominate, with Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and American Foursquare houses also present. Notable buildings include a house at 25 D'Arcy Street from about 1785, the 1856 Greek Revival Waterworks, Charlton Manor of 1845, and the 1908 Duncan M. Brown School. Two former slave quarters survive. The Halifax Street area developed as a commercial corridor for the African American community after the Civil War, with churches such as Zion Baptist. Together these areas show a cohesive upper middle-class neighborhood organized around Poplar Lawn.","period_of_significance":"1767-1945","architect_builder":"Charles Robinson (architect of the Duncan M. Brown School, 1908); Dr. Nathaniel F. Rives (builder of several Liberty Street houses, 1853-1855)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Vernacular, Prairie, Tudor Revival, Second Empire, Bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Mostly houses still in residential use, along with churches, a school administration building and a water plant. Some buildings are noted as badly deteriorated or boarded up, and current functions include vacant or not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.665201-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/6824/41682490/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000030.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000030/c811279a9a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000030/c811279a9a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Sarah Stierch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_home_in_Poplar_Lawn_Historic_District_-_Stierch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Stierch</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_home_in_Poplar_Lawn_Historic_District_-_Stierch.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80004315","name":"Poplar Lawn Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/poplar-lawn-historic-district-80004315/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682490","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar_Lawn_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16898671"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/petersburg/poplar-lawn-historic-district-boundary-increase-06000030/"}