Spurred by a recent wave of teardowns and new construction, there has been a lively debate over the last couple of weeks about historic preservation and the building characteristics that help define the neighborhood. While Virginia-Highland is a collection of smaller subdivisions built over a span of several decades, some local architects and residents identified…
The Virginia-Highland Civic Association Preservation & History Committee formed nearly two years ago and has made great progress. We’re inviting all lovers of history to play an important role: join our committee for starters, and become the History Champion of your subdivision. Virginia-Highland is actually made up of many subdivisions and was primarily developed from…
About a year ago, we posted 22 historic plat maps of various subdivisions that are now part of Virginia-Highland — these are the maps on which surveyors originally plotted how the land was subdivided into the lots that, for the most part, still exist today. To explore the maps, you can start by viewing the…
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