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Appendix 4
APPENDIX 4 - DETAILED providing temporary housing for troops during
World War I. No WWI-era buildings remain,
NEIGHBORHOOD however the existing structures were utilized
DESCRIPTIONS as military supply warehouses during the
World War II era. A rezoning proposal (“Hilton
Gatewood Commons”) was approved in 2013 calling for
The Gatewood neighborhood is bounded by a mixed-use development featuring various
Warwick Boulevard, Gatewood Road with a jog sizes of single-family homes, townhomes, office
east to the CSX Railroad, and Harpersville Road. uses, and parks. No demolition or construction
The neighborhood was built in the 1940s - 1950s activities have been initiated to date.
and features mostly single-story Cape Cod and
ranch style homes. Most of the homes have North Hilton
attached or detached garages and range in size North Hilton is located south of Camp Morrison.
from approximately 1,100 square feet to 1,700 It is bound by the CSX Railroad, Hunter Road,
square feet of living space. This neighborhood Main Street, and Warwick Boulevard. This
abuts Warwick High School and the Mariners’ neighborhood primarily contains Cape Cod and
Lake Natural Area. Several churches, two funeral ranch style homes with under 1600 SF of living
homes, and a small number of commercial space. With a few exceptions, most of the homes
establishments are located along Harpersville were built in 1940 and some with attached or
Road. detached garages. Most of the newer homes
were built along Westover Road in the last few
Dutch Village years. They are two-story homes with attached
The Dutch Village neighborhood is bound by garages and roughly 2,300 -2,700 SF of living
Warwick Boulevard, Harpersville Road, CSX space. The streets in the neighborhood are
Railroad and Nelson Drive. It has a variety of roughly 20 feet wide with no sidewalks and
housing types built in the 1940s to 1990s. The limited street lights.
housing types range from multi-family to single-
family residential. Since there are a mixture of Hilton Village
housing types in separate developments, not Hilton Village is characterized by a gridded
all of the streets have sidewalks or sufficient street pattern lined with sidewalks, trees and
lighting, like the residential area on Colonial street lights. The village extends east-west
Place. There are commercial and office uses Warwick Boulevard to River Road and north-
along Warwick Boulevard and multi-family areas south from Post Street to Hopkins Street. It is
immediately abutting the commercial areas. the first federally funded housing development
in America. Hilton Village was planned and built
Camp Morrison between 1917 and 1920 to serve as housing for
Camp Morrison occupies approximately 100 white employees of Newport News Shipbuilding
acres located behind the Warwick Shopping and Dry Dock Company during World War I. The
Center and adjacent the CSX railroad with a black employees of Newport News Shipbuilding
narrow section of land extending northward had housing in sections of downtown Newport
behind the existing apartment complexes to News and what is known as the Southeast
Harpersville Road. The property was built in 1917 Community.
and served as a U.S. Army Air Service Depot
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