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Appendix 4
Hilton Village features design cues from the homes. Some homes have garages. Raleigh
Garden City Movement. There are 500 English Road, Rivermont Drive and one-half of Randolph
cottage style houses on 20 blocks with alleys, and Road has sidewalks. Woodfin Road, Franklin
with 14 house designs (duplex and single-family). Road, North and Center Avenues do not have
The homes range from roughly 1,100 SF to 1,900 sidewalks. The width of these streets range from
SF. None of the homes have attached garages. 20 feet to 35 feet, and there are varying sizes of
To protect the historic neighborhood, a local right-of-way on both sides of the streets.
historic district was created which is governed
by the Hilton Village Architectural Review Board Rivermont also includes commercial and
(ARB). The overlay district does not include Hilton industrial uses along Warwick Boulevard. The
Elementary School. The neighborhood is listed commercial areas have unique signage from
on the National Register of Historic Place and the the 1950s that contribute to the eclectic nature
Virginia Register of Historic Places. of the neighborhood. There are arts institutions
located within the neighborhood. They include:
The Hilton Village commercial area fronts both Cozzy’s Comedy Club & Tavern, Contemporary
sides of Warwick Boulevard within the historic Arts Network (CAN), consignment stores, and
district boundaries. Some of the buildings were Hampton Roads Wholesalers – an art supplies
constructed to include a mix of uses. Many of and custom framing store. The Hampton
them have retail or office on the first floor and Roads Wholesalers and adjacent buildings have
residential on the second floor. This section of murals fronting the CSX Railroad. CAN also has
Hilton Village features the Peninsula Community murals on all sides of the building. Businesses
Theatre, boutiques, restaurants, offices and can change frequently but in Rivermont, these
stores. Hilton Baptist Church and First United particular businesses serve as the southern
Methodist Church anchor Main Street. anchor to create an arts and cultural district.
Hilton Terrace The northern anchor is the Mariners’ Museum
Hilton Terrace is a quant neighborhood along & Park. According to Virginia law, an arts and
the James River. The homes were built between cultural district can “increase awareness and
the 1920s to mid-2000s. The homes were built support for the arts and culture in the city. The
with Colonial, ranch, and Cape Cod architectural city may provide incentives for the support and
elements. The homes range in size from creation of arts and cultural venues in each
approximately 1,600 square feet to 6,100 square district. The city may also grant tax incentives
feet. Half of the neighborhood has sidewalks. and provide certain regulatory flexibility in each
The street width is roughly 35 feet with roughly arts and cultural district.”
8 feet of right-of-way on both sides of the street.
The street width is important when considering Brandon Heights
sidewalk improvements. The Brandon Heights neighborhood is bound
by Warwick Boulevard, Milford Road, the James
Rivermont River and Stratford Road. The neighborhood
Rivermont is bound by the CSX Railroad, Newmarket was constructed in the late 1930s, 1940s and a
Creek (Government Ditch), the James River and few homes in the 1950s. All of the streets have
Raleigh Road. The neighborhood has a variety tree lined sidewalks. The neighborhood includes
of homes including: single-family, duplex and two-story Colonial and Cape Cod homes. There
mobile homes. Some of the homes were built is one restaurant at the intersection of Warwick
in the 1920s but the majority of the homes Boulevard and Milford Road. Beyond that, the
were built in the mid-1930s to 1940s. The sizes neighborhood is purely single-family residential.
range from small single-story to large two-story
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