A comparison of the Dilworth and Eastover Neighborhoods

Both neighborhoods were started by companies. Both of them were designed by landscape architecture and city planning firms. Both of these firms were tops in their field. Olmstead Brothers, the company that designed part of Dilworth, was nationally renowned and Earle Sumner Draper was a premier urban planner in the Southeastern United States. Both neighborhoods were developed in stages. Both began as suburbs of the city and both were annexed into the city. Each of the neighborhoods were designed around a main street. Cherokee Road is the "backbone" of Eastover. East Boulevard is the "backbone" of Dilworth. The initial section of Dilworth was built in a grid pattern, but the later sections were designed with curving roads. There are churches in each of them. Each neighborhood had a street in it named after the neighborhood.

The Hamilton Jones House, in Eastover

The Rogers House, in Dilworth

One of the differences is that the trolley was what helped develop Dilworth and automobiles were what helped develop Eastover. In those days, Dilworth was the home of more middle-class residents (factory workers) and Eastover has more upper-class residents (financiers and executives). Dilworth had smaller folk Victorian houses and Eastover had large Georgian homes. When Dilworth was started it was south of the city and now it would be considered part of the inner-city. Eastover has always been considered to be southeast of the center city. Dilworth has a large park and a significant industrial base (much of which is being redeveloped as "South End"), whereas Eastover has a school, a museum and apartments in addition to the single-family dwellings.

The Mint Museum, in Eastover

The Parks-Cramer Company Complex, in Dilworth