National Park Service spotlights Hermitage Road

Hermitage Road Historic District is a four-block section of Hermitage Road that is northwest of Richmond’s central business district and just south of the Henrico County line. The district developed between the late 1800s and early 1900s, starting out as an enclave of elegant country estates Richmond’s wealthy built and evolving into an upper and middle-class suburban neighborhood along a streetcar line. Hermitage Road has a landscaped median that replaced the tracks of the streetcar line in 1929. Trees, sidewalks, early-20th century street lamps, and fine homes that are setback on big deep lots line the boulevard. The district’s significance lies in its development patterns and with its largely intact collection of residential architecture dating from 1885 to the late 1930’s. Several buildings are noteworthy as the work of Richmond architect D. Wiley Anderson.