Highland Park (Richmond)

Highland Park is a neighborhood comprising several historic districts north of downtown Richmond, Virginia.

Largely residential in character, the area is notable for having Richmond's largest remaining stock of Queen Anne style homes.

Originally developed as a streetcar suburb starting in 1891, the community quickly became a magnet for the city's burgeoning southern & eastern European immigrant population, particularly Italians, Germans, and Poles.

[2] The area declined after World War II, when white flight and other economic factors encouraged wealthy and middle-class residents to depart for newer neighborhoods in the city's West End.

[3] The city's "Neighborhoods in Bloom"[4] program, a public-private partnership focused on encouraging investment activity in targeted areas, has also contributed to this resurgence.