North Battersea-Pride's Field Historic District

North Battersea/Pride's Field is a twelve-block residential neighborhood in northwest Petersburg, Virginia, bounded by railroad corridors, the filled bed of the Upper Appomattox Canal, and the open land of Battersea. Most of its buildings are two-story frame houses on low brick foundations, many with weatherboard siding, full-width front porches and bracketed cornices. The district includes thirty-nine side-passage houses and forty double houses, a type common in Petersburg, along with small cottages, a few bungalows, three churches, neighborhood stores and a ballpark. Italianate influence is most common, with Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival examples as well. Older buildings include Montview, built before 1810, a small stone house thought to have served the canal toll keeper, and a surviving brick outbuilding of Pride's Tavern. Remnants of nearby mills, dams and canals lie along the river. The neighborhood was recognized for its architecture, with a period of significance from about 1810 to 1940.