It is also where the city's wealthy and influential citizens built their houses along Eighth Avenue and its adjacent streets.

The neighborhood was called "Pucker Street" because of the superior attitudes that some of its early residents were said to have possessed.

[2] There were three building booms in this neighborhood: a small one in the 1850s and the 1860s, a major one in the 1880s and 1890s, and a period of infill construction and remodeling from the 1910s to the 1930s.

Because of the prominence of its residents, the popular architectural styles of the era are found here, especially the Italianate and Queen Anne.

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