Parkridge is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located off Magnolia Avenue east of the city's downtown area.

First Creek has traditionally divided the area from Downtown Knoxville to the southwest, and expressway construction, namely Hall of Fame Drive and the James White Parkway, has sharpened this division in recent decades.

During the 1850s, a developer named John Shields established Shieldstown between First Creek and modern Bertrand Street, near what is now the Old City, which by 1880 had a population of 700.

[3][5] In 1875, Fernando Cortes Beaman (1836–1911), a college professor, purchased an 1,100-acre (450 ha) dairy farm east of Shieldstown from the descendants of Alexander McMillan.

[3] This included what is now Chilhowee Park, which Beaman began developing in the mid-1880s, namely with the creation of "Lake Ottossee," and the erection of a dance pavilion.

[3] Around 1888, the Edgewood Land and Improvement Company initiated the development of Parkridge, namely with the division of lots in what is now the western part of the neighborhood.

[3] Streets in Parkridge still roughly follow the gridlike pattern laid out by this company and other developers during this period.

One of Park City's primary employers, Standard Knitting Mills, built a large factory on the neighborhood's western end in 1900.