[5] Farming centric businesses along Harford Road had access to the old Belair Market at Forrest and Gay Streets.

Adjacent to Mayfield, the City established a reservoir, Lake Montebello, which provided the neighborhood with a picturesque setting.

The community is an example of a kind of residential neighborhood which characterized the area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A variety of stone walls, fences, terraced lawns and private gardens are the main landscape features.

Within the residential built environment of Mayfield are characteristic details representative of the quality of workmanship in homebuilding prevalent form the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.

Other architectural details include decorative shingles, bracketed door hoods, corbelled brickwork, slate and tile roofs, ornamental cornices and prominent chimneys.