Alta Vista-Camp Fornance-Newman Park Historic District
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Columbia, SC (Richland County)
Alternate Name:
Earlewood
NRHP Nomination Form
Record Number:
S10817740160
Description and Narrative:
Alta Vista-Camp Fornance-Newman Park Historic District is significant as an intact residential neighborhood featuring houses that reflect American architectural trends from 1906 through 1960, as a demonstration of historic community planning and development, and as a demonstration of the evolution of middle-class, residential architecture and designed landscapes during the first half of the twentieth century. Originally developed in the early 1900s as a series of separately developed streetcar suburbs, the historic district today is a consolidation of three subdivisions that overlapped with each other chronologically, geographically, and demographically, and eventually merged under a single, encompassing neighborhood identity: Earlewood. Alta Vista-Camp Fornance-Newman Park Historic District includes 582 historic buildings that are contributing resources, and 300 buildings that are non-contributing resources. There are five contributing structures, one contributing object, and three contributing sites. Historic Alta Vista-Camp Fornance-Newman Park is laid out in a grid with rectilinear lots, tree-lined streets, residential buildings, and recreational spaces that retain their original form and historic integrity. Buildings in the district are representative of several architectural styles that spanned the early and mid-twentieth century, including Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, folk Victorian, Craftsman bungalows, American foursquare, minimal traditional, and ranch style. The district also includes two parks, Marshall Park and Earlewood Park, and part of an African-American burial ground, Douglas Cemetery. Listed in the National Register November 17, 2015.
Period of Significance:
1906 – 1960
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Community Planning and Development;Architecture;Landscape Architecture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
2015-11-17
Date of Boundary Increase:
No Boundary Increase
Location:
Richland County
