Quality of Life Plan for Opportunity Neighborhoods

OPPORTUNITY
NEIGHBORHOODS
Westside
Centrally located, the Westside neighborhood
connects to the Dan River and borders downtown
to the east and the hospital to the west.
Westside is home to Danville’s Historic districts
and includes multiple distinct neighborhoods
like Cedar Terrace, Westmoreland,
Old West End and Green Street.
The Holbrook-Ross Street Historic
District which includes Westmoreland
consists of Queen Anne and Italianate
styles of architecture. Home to Danville’s
first cemetery on Grove Street, this
neighborhood displays a mix of housing
and some businesses found in a
traditional downtown neighborhood.
By the twentieth century, Holbrook-Ross Street
had acquired a reputation as “Danville’s foremost
black residential address,” according to the
National Register of Historic Places marker at the
neighborhood’s entrance. Like many neighborhoods
in the US South, Holbrook-Ross was home to a
cross-section of classes, from African-American
professionals—teachers, ministers, lawyers, postal
clerks, dentists, and physicians—to bricklayers,
laborers, and tobacco and textile workers.
Also Home to the Old West End, the Danville
Historic Districts showcases some of the finest
Victorian and Edwardian architecture in Virginia
and North Carolina. Many of the old mansions
built by the tobacco and textile barons of the
late 19th century still stand as testimony to
the wealth and power of those industries and
to the skill and craftsmanship that have long
disappeared from modern building techniques.
Local architectural styles include Victorian,
Edwardian, Romanesque, and Gothic Revival.
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Neighborhood
Assets*
1. God’s Storehouse
2. Camilla Williams Park
3. M.C. Martin Park
4. Cedar Terrace Youth Center
5. Langston Focus School
6. Danville Headstart Office
7. Williams House
8. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority House
9. Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History
10. Doyle Thomas Park
(a.k.a. Green Street Park)
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The Westside neighborhood also contains
other important community assets such as
churches, non-profits, stores, and shops. Note
also that the boundaries on this map are not
hard or fixed, and are subject to interpretation
based on resident experience.