Riverview

Riverview is a residential neighborhood of roughly 97 acres in Norfolk, Virginia, bounded by the Lafayette River, Lafayette Park and Granby Street. It grew mostly in the early twentieth century as a streetcar suburb, laid out from several separately platted tracts along diagonal, tree-lined streets. The earliest houses, built around 1895 to 1912, were large, highly ornamented Queen Anne and Colonial Revival dwellings on spacious lots. After minimum construction costs were lowered in 1913, smaller houses on single lots filled in the area, including bungalows, American Foursquares, and Tudor and Spanish Colonial examples. A few apartment buildings appeared as well. Construction slowed after 1929, and later infill generally echoed the older styles. The district holds 251 resources, all domestic, of which 197 are counted as contributing. It is considered significant for its cohesive collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century residential architecture and its role in Norfolk's suburban growth.