Loudon-Melrose is a
Roanoke,
Virginia
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neighborhood
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located in west Roanoke south of
U.S. 460 (Melrose Avenue).
It borders the neighborhoods of
Shenandoah West on the west,
Harrison and
Gilmer on the east,
Melrose-Rugby on the north and
Hurt Park on the south opposite the
Norfolk Southern
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rail yard.
History
With the continued outward expansion of Roanoke resulting from the completion of the Salem-Melrose streetcar line in the 1890s, by the 1920s this outward residential expansion reached the Loudon-Melrose area. The residential design of the neighborhood is dominated by the two-story
foursquare, constructed during the 1920s-1930s.
References
External links
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Loudon-Melrose Neighborhood Organization
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Neighborhoods in Roanoke, Virginia