Brookland Park Historic District

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.