Parkridge (Knoxville, Tennessee)
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Park City Historic District
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| Location | East Fifth, Jefferson, Woodbine and Washington Avenues Knoxville, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 35°59′13″N 83°53′56″W / 35.98694°N 83.89889°WCoordinates: 35°59′13″N 83°53′56″W / 35.98694°N 83.89889°W |
| Area | approximately 191 acres (77 ha) |
| Built | 1880–1940 |
| Architect | George Franklin Barber, John Ryno, others |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, Folk Victorian |
| NRHP reference # | 90001578 |
| Added to NRHP | October 25, 1990 |
Parkridge is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located off Magnolia Avenue east of the city's downtown area. Developed as a streetcar suburb for Knoxville's professional class in the 1890s, the neighborhood was incorporated as the separate city of Park City in 1907, and annexed by Knoxville in 1917. In the early 1900s, the neighborhood provided housing for workers at the nearby Standard Knitting Mills factory.
In 1990, over 600 houses in Parkridge were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Park City Historic District. The neighborhood contains one of the largest concentrations of houses designed by George Franklin Barber (1854–1915), a mail-order architect known nationwide for his ornate Victorian house plans.
Parkridge is located in East Knoxville, and is bounded by Interstate 40 on the north, Magnolia Avenue (part of US-70) on the south, Hall of Fame Drive on the west, and Cherry Street on the east. The Chilhowee Park neighborhood lies opposite Cherry Street to the east, Fourth and Gill lies opposite Hall of Fame Drive to the west, Morningside lies to the south, and North Hills lies opposite I-40 to the northeast. First Creek has traditionally divided the area from Downtown Knoxville to the southwest, and expressway construction, namely Hall of Fame Drive and the James White Parkway, has sharpened this division in recent decades.
What is now Parkridge was once part of a vast farm owned by Moses White, the son of Knoxville founder James White. By the mid-19th century, much of this land had been acquired by Joseph Mabry, whose house still stands atop Mabry Hill to the south. During the 1850s, a developer named John Shields established Shieldstown between First Creek and modern Bertrand Street, near what is now the Old City, which by 1880 had a population of 700.
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