The Virginia Park Historic District is located on the north side of New Center, an area in Detroit, Michigan, along both sides of Virginia Park Street from Woodward Avenue to the John C. Lodge Freeway access road.

[1] The Virginia Park Historic District is an example of a well–preserved late nineteenth to early twentieth century residential community.

The Algiers Motel, at one time located at the corner of Virginia Park and Woodward, was the scene of an incident of police brutality during the 1967 Detroit riot where three men were killed and others were beaten.

[3] The Virginia Park Historic District is considered to mark the northern boundary of the New Center area of Detroit.

In 2022, one of Detroit's last remaining brick streets, built in 1907 in Virginia Park, began a $2 million rehabilitation.

Stretching three blocks along Virginia Park Street between Woodward Ave, and the Lodge Freeway.

The residences were constructed between 1895 and 1915, with the older structures placed closer to Woodward, and newer ones, in general, farther westward.