Bounded by Paradise Creek, Victory Blvd., and George Washington Hwy., Portsmouth (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Portsmouth.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 20, 1974. NRIS 74002240.
759 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.
Cradock Historic District is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 759 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a primarily residential section of Portsmouth. It was developed starting in 1918, as a planned community of Colonial Revival and Bungalow style single family residences. It was developed by the United States Housing Corporation as a result of the rapid influx of workers at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during World War I.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682618