Colonial Place is a residential neighborhood in

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

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. It is a

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bordered by 38th Street on the south, and surrounded on three sides by the

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. It is a relatively racially mixed area that includes mostly single family homes and a few apartment buildings. Many large homes front the water and Mayflower Road arches around the shore of the

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

. The Colonial Place Historic District is a national

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listed on the

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in 2002. It encompasses 1,090 contributing buildings and 4 contributing sites in a primarily residential section of Norfolk. It is a middle-class and upper middle-class residential neighborhood that largely developed during the period 1903–1941. The neighborhood includes notable examples of the Queen Anne and

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

styles. Notable buildings include the Richard W. Peatross House (1908), Taylor House (1908) and Stuart Elementary School. an
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk, Virginia Queen Anne architecture in Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia Buildings and structures completed in 1903 Neighborhoods in Norfolk, Virginia {{NorfolkVA-NRHP-stub