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...

A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of a rail vehicle, either individual...

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...

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...

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...

The West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District is an area of West Philadelphia listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It represented...

A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which often contains most of the area's economic activity, which may include...

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...

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...

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...

adjoining residential neighborhood was developed beginning in 1908 as a streetcar suburb of Washington, D.C., as trolley lines of the Washington, Alexandria...

Washington Heights is a historic streetcar suburb north of Biddleville. Wesley Heights is an original streetcar suburb mainly developed in the 1920s by...

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...

area universities – Vanderbilt, Belmont, and Lipscomb. The former streetcar suburb and urban neighborhood of Hillsboro Village is directly north across...

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...

types Multi-family residential Shophouse Sobrado (Portugal and Brazil) Streetcar suburb Terraced house Townhouse (Great Britain) For a description of an 18th-century...

development. Following the advent of the D.C. streetcar system, Mt. Pleasant became Washington's first streetcar suburb and burgeoned as an affluent residential...

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...

purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, D.C., during the expansion of the Washington streetcars system. Newlands and his partners...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

was one of the houses of note when the Inman Park – Atlanta's first streetcar suburb – was established. John M. Beath was an "ice magnate", owner of the...

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...

city is one of the older suburbs in the St. Louis area, having been a streetcar suburb in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; much historic architecture...

interurbans Streetcar suburb Rapid transit Interurban Press Light rail, a contemporary successor to interurbans Tram-train, a similar concept with streetcars sharing...

through the neighborhood as early as 1907, Wallingford is a classic streetcar suburb, typified by its many 1920s era box houses and bungalows. Commercial...

on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. To the north, it borders the streetcar suburb of Bratenahl, the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway, and the Lake Erie shore...