{"nrhp_refnum":"09000161","name":"Oakhurst-Gildersleeve Neighborhood Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Oakhurst Circle, Gildersleeve Wood, Valley Rd., Valley Circle, and part of Maywood Ln., and Jefferson Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Charlottesville","state":"VA","lat":38.033921047000035,"lon":-78.50687767199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-03-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 25-acre residential historic district in southwest Charlottesville, Virginia, next to the University of Virginia, centered on Oakhurst Circle, Gildersleeve Wood, Valley Road, Valley Circle and part of Maywood Lane. It contains homes and apartments dating from the 1910s to the 1960s.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion C for its collection of early 20th-century dwellings that served and complemented the adjacent university. Its houses, several designed by architects such as Eugene Bradbury and Milton Grigg, retain a high level of integrity. It has continued to house university faculty, medical school personnel and students.","narrative":"Next to the University of Virginia in southwest Charlottesville, this 25-acre neighborhood grew up around two circular streets, Oakhurst Circle and Gildersleeve Wood, along with Valley Road and Maywood Lane. Oakhurst Circle marks the site of a 19th-century house associated with classics professor Basil Gildersleeve, which burned in 1915. The district holds more than 65 homes, mostly built between the 1910s and 1960s, in Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Tudor Revival styles, plus Cape Cod and other postwar forms. Several were designed by architects including Eugene Bradbury and Milton Grigg. The neighborhood expanded as the university grew in the 1920s and 1930s, supplying housing for faculty, medical school staff and students, including boarding houses. Its original layout and buildings remain remarkably intact, with few modern intrusions. It is recognized for its architecture and for its close link to the university, with a period of significance of about 1912 to 1955.","period_of_significance":"circa 1912 to 1955","architect_builder":"Eugene Bradbury (architect, several houses); Milton Grigg (architect, 139/548 Valley Road); Henry B. and Francesca Boone (spec house builders)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Vernacular","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Largely intact and still residential; a mix of single-family houses, duplexes and apartments, with some houses converted to apartments. The location is described as vulnerable to future university hospital expansion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.499499-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/6800/41680081/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000161.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000161/8888dc3ff6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000161/8888dc3ff6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kleinsl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:550_Valley_Rd.,_Oakhurst-Gildersleeve_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Kleinsl</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:550_Valley_Rd.,_Oakhurst-Gildersleeve_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680081","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakhurst%E2%80%93Gildersleeve_Neighborhood_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15263217"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlottesville/oakhurst-gildersleeve-neighborhood-historic-district-09000161/"}