Poplar Lawn Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary increase adds 35 blocks in four areas around the existing Poplar Lawn district in southeast Petersburg, bringing the total to 137.7 acres and 276 resources. Most are wood-frame single-family houses built between the late 18th century and the mid-20th century, mainly in the second half of the 19th century and the early 1900s. Italianate and Greek Revival designs dominate, with Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and American Foursquare houses also present. Notable buildings include a house at 25 D'Arcy Street from about 1785, the 1856 Greek Revival Waterworks, Charlton Manor of 1845, and the 1908 Duncan M. Brown School. Two former slave quarters survive. The Halifax Street area developed as a commercial corridor for the African American community after the Civil War, with churches such as Zion Baptist. Together these areas show a cohesive upper middle-class neighborhood organized around Poplar Lawn.