A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation...
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Streetcars or trolley(car)s (North American English for the European word tram) were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American...
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impact on West Hartford and its evolution from sleepy crossroads to modern suburb. In the late 18th and early 19th century three turnpikes ran through West...
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The West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District is an area of West Philadelphia listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It represented...
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where more than half the housing stock was built prior to 1969". Streetcar suburb List of inner suburbs in the United States Sierra, Angélica Camargo...
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A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large...
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Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania (category Streetcar suburbs)
is a suburb of Pittsburgh. Established in 1912 as Mount Lebanon, the township was a farming community. With the arrival of the first streetcar lines...
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area universities – Vanderbilt, Belmont, and Lipscomb. The former streetcar suburb and urban neighborhood of Hillsboro Village is directly north across...
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suburbs in 1888. After years of being a streetcar suburb, Edina saw expanded development as a car-centric suburb in the 1950s and 1960s. The city is known...
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Shaker Heights, Ohio (category Streetcar suburbs)
the city's population was 29,439. Shaker Heights is an inner-ring streetcar suburb of Cleveland, abutting the eastern edge of the city's limits. It is...
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Washington Heights is a historic streetcar suburb north of Biddleville. Wesley Heights is an original streetcar suburb mainly developed in the 1920s by...
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development. Following the advent of the D.C. streetcar system, Mt. Pleasant became Washington's first streetcar suburb and burgeoned as an affluent residential...
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types Multi-family residential Shophouse Sobrado (Portugal and Brazil) Streetcar suburb Terraced house Townhouse (Great Britain) For a description of an 18th-century...
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Cedar Park, Philadelphia (category Streetcar suburbs)
Cedar Park was built between 1850 and 1910 as a streetcar suburb of Center City. Its development as a suburb accelerated with the installation of horsecars...
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The population was 44,701 at the 2020 US Census. The community is a streetcar suburb of Baltimore along the city's western border. The town is known for...
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Inman Park (category Streetcar suburbs)
rural oasis connected to the city by the first of Atlanta's electric streetcar lines, along Edgewood Avenue. The East Atlanta Land Company acquired and...
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Wallingford, Seattle (category Streetcar suburbs)
through the neighborhood as early as 1907, Wallingford is a classic streetcar suburb, typified by its many 1920s era box houses and bungalows. Commercial...
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Maryland. It was developed between 1890 and 1920 as an upper-class streetcar suburb. The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton...
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a city on April 16, 1917. In its early days, Urbandale served as a streetcar suburb of Des Moines with four coal mines. Urbandale served as the end of...
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Mount Rainier, Maryland (category Streetcar suburbs)
the south. Mount Rainier got its start as a streetcar suburb, when tracks were laid for the 82 Streetcar Line. According to local tradition, surveyors...
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purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, D.C., during the expansion of the Washington streetcars system. Newlands and his partners...
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lines closer to downtown and surface lines along street medians in the streetcar suburb of Shaker Heights. The two lines part ways at Shaker Square, a historic...
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Milwaukee County. In the early 20th century, the village developed as a streetcar suburb, with the population growing from 512 in 1900 to 9651 in 1940. As the...
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adjoining residential neighborhood was developed beginning in 1908 as a streetcar suburb of Washington, D.C., as trolley lines of the Washington, Alexandria...
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recognizing it as one of the best examples of an early 20th century streetcar suburb. The neighborhood is home to restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, taverns...
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Interurban (redirect from Interurban streetcar)
interurbans Streetcar suburb Rapid transit Interurban Press Light rail, a contemporary successor to interurbans Tram-train, a similar concept with streetcars sharing...
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Hyde Park (Austin, Texas) (category Streetcar suburbs)
be Austin's first suburb. The neighborhood was originally developed by Monroe M. Shipe in 1891 as a "White Only" streetcar suburb with a large artificial...
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making the area an early example of a streetcar suburb. While most of the Pittsburgh area's passenger rail and streetcar services were discontinued in the...
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Louis and Forest Park. Many of its attractions are located in the streetcar suburb of University City, but the area is expanding eastward into the Skinker...
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