Centre Hill Historic District

Centre Hill Historic District is a residential enclave in northern Petersburg, Virginia, made up of seventy-one buildings gathered around the Centre Hill mansion. The brick mansion, built in the second quarter of the 19th century for the Bolling family, combines Federal and Greek Revival details and is individually listed. Its park-like grounds stayed largely intact until 1911, when a development company divided much of the land into twenty-nine lots around a circular drive, Centre Hill Court. Houses built there from 1914 into the 1920s include bungalows, American Foursquare designs, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival dwellings, a mix described as unique in the city. Some are duplexes that share a building with houses on neighboring streets. Nearby North Jefferson and Franklin streets keep Greek Revival, Italianate and late 19th-century frame houses from the earlier neighborhood, along with a 1915 five-story apartment building and St. Joseph's Convent. Today the mansion operates as a museum.