Chesterfield Heights Historic District

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.