Northside - City of Riverside

most recent definition from the National Park Service, the location of such tracts is
pivotal in understanding the presence of the suburb within the context of 20 th
century residential development and land use (NPS 2002:2).
Hiawatha Place, a post-WWII cul-de-sac carved from grove land in the Southeast Quarter
The main thrust of this building boom in Riverside was focused between 1946 and
the late 1950s, and the citywide subdivision of lands reached its peak in 1955 with
the creation of 1,576 lots (Patterson 1996: 412). Characteristically, post-war
development vied for proximity to commercial centers, which was seen in the area
around the Riverside Plaza (1956), a large retail shopping mall far south of the
Northside. Within the survey area, however, post-WWII construction was limited by
land availability, as the area had been aggressively developed since the turn of the
century. The remaining vacant pockets of land like the one now near SR-60 in File’s
Island and the land high above Fairmount Park became little islands of post-war
development in U-shape and dead-end streets, respectively. Similarly, the Oak
Manor Tracts carved two isolated cul-de-sacs from the former Westbrook and
Atwood grove lands in the Southeast Quarter.
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