Craftsman bungalow streets converge on a streetcar era retail corner of brick storefronts.
What Virginia-Highland looks like
Craftsman bungalows and one and a half storey English cottages line the streets up to Ponce de Leon Avenue, behind clipped gable porches on square or paired columns. Wood frame siding runs between brick, stone and stucco accents. Most houses date from 1905 to the mid 1930s. Streets curve with the terrain in the northern blocks and run in a grid farther south, meeting at the rounded turns a streetcar line left at Virginia Avenue and Monroe Drive.
The retail corner at Virginia and North Highland avenues holds a run of one and two storey brick storefronts, the oldest dating to 1925. , at the North Highland and St. Charles corner, is a raised house from the 1920s with a deli space built underneath it. , at 1041 North Highland Avenue, has held the same corner since 1961.
, a 1920s commercial building, has carved stone ornament under its cornice. are two three storey brick apartment buildings at 734 to 746 North Highland Avenue, built in 1916 and 1918. They face each other across a shared courtyard behind oversized white columns.
The Adair Mansion, a Mediterranean style house from 1895 on Rupley Drive, stands on grounds subdivided into bungalow lots in 1911. The , a nine storey red brick tower from 1925, rises on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The bell tower of the marks the North Highland corner a block north.
Shot in Virginia-Highland
Being Mary Jane's 2012 BET pilot and Bravo's Married to Medicine both shot inside 780 North Highland Avenue, a 1920s storefront building a few blocks south of the Virginia and North Highland corner. Trouble with the Curve filmed for half a day inside George's Restaurant and Bar at 1041 North Highland Avenue that same year.
Being Mary Jane, 2012
780 North Highland Avenue
Played a pet store
The BET pilot filmed dialogue scenes inside the storefront over two days in April 2012, using it as a local pet store. The building's facade was under a contested renovation that same spring.
Married to Medicine, 2013
Played itself, on camera as a reality segment
Bravo's reality series filmed at the same storefront the following year. The building is a contributing property to the Virginia-Highland Historic District.
Craftsman bungalows converge on a streetcar era retail node the same way they do at Virginia and North Highland, and Cooper-Young's own atlas page names Virginia-Highland as one of its matches for the same reason. Both commercial corners grew out of a streetcar crossing rather than a planned square. Cooper-Young's painted steel rail trestle is a giveaway in any wide shot, so a comparison works best held tight on the bungalow porches and the low brick storefronts rather than the crossing itself. Try searching craftsman bungalow commercial corner now.
North Park in San Diego, California
North Park's bungalow courts and single family Craftsman houses grew up around the 30th Street and University Avenue streetcar crossing, which became the neighborhood's own commercial corner the way Virginia and North Highland did here. Most of its bungalow stock dates from the same 1920s and 1930s window. San Diego's mission style commercial buildings from the 1920s and 1930s read differently than Virginia-Highland's plain brick storefronts, so a shot favoring the bungalow streets over the corner itself holds the illusion better. Try searching craftsman bungalow streetcar corner now.
Hyde Park in Tampa, Florida
Hyde Park's Bungalow Terrace, a court of Craftsman houses built on Swann Avenue in the 1910s, has the same porch and gable scale as Virginia-Highland's own bungalow blocks. The wider historic district was listed on the National Register in 1985. Bungalow Terrace's shared pergola, since removed, once ran between the houses. Without it, a frame held on a single porch is the safer match, since Hyde Park has no equivalent streetcar retail corner on camera. Try searching craftsman bungalow court porch now.
