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Community Profile
SECTOR 3 includes a community garden, the historic fire
house and the Hilton Tennis Club; the Newport
Description News Police Museum and several churches. The
Sector 3 includes the neighborhoods of Hilton Warwick Boulevard corridor in this area features
Village, North Hilton, Brandon Heights, and a variety of small-scale commercial entities,
Rivermont, South Rivermont, North Newport including several locally-owned businesses and
News, and Hilton Waterfront subdivisions restaurants.
(collectively known as “Rivermont”). The sector is
bounded by the CSX railroad to the east, Hunter
Road to the north and the Government Ditch
to the south. A pedestrian access connection
to Huntington Park exists off South Avenue,
crossing the Government Ditch.
This sector includes the homes and retail
commercial buildings of the historic Hilton
Village, other historic residential and commercial
areas that are not within a specific historic
district, several community facilities and one
mobile home park. The various community
Hilton Elementary School
facilities include: Hilton Elementary School;
Main Street Library; Hilton Ravine Park; Hilton
pier and beach; Municipal Lane Park, which The architectural character of the neighborhoods
is quite cohesive, with the majority of homes
having been constructed in the first half of the
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revival, bungalow and cottage. The Hilton Village
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homes with steeply pitched, slate tile roofs and
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gridded streetscapes reflecting the Garden
City Movement that focused on human-scale
Neighborhood Sector 3
development.
Homes along the James River waterfront
between North Avenue and South Avenue
include a mix of bungalow and cottage-style
homes built between 1920 and 1945, with a few
newer two-story residences built after 1990. The
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combination of larger 2- to 2- ½-story colonial
and Cape Cod homes with a few brick ranch style
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Figure 14 – Sector 3 Boundary Map
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