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Norolk ride to Ghent

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Norolk ride to Ghent

Length5 mi
Elev. Gain65.6 ft
Est. Steps11000

Scenic views

Wild flowers

Historic site

Created by brucecoffey15
Introduction
Norolk ride to Ghent is a 5 mile (11,000-step) route located near Norfolk, Virginia, USA. This route has an elevation gain of about 65.6 ft and is rated as easy. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.

Chrysler Museum of Art

Tourist Attraction
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (whose wife, Jean Outland Chrysler, was a native of Norfolk), donated most of his extensive collection to the museum.

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Place
Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) is a public medical school in Norfolk, Virginia.Founded by grassroots efforts in the southeastern part of Virginia known as Hampton Roads, EVMS is not affiliated with an undergraduate institution and coordinates training through multiple medical centers in the Hampton Roads region.

Matthew Fontaine Maury High School

School
Matthew Fontaine Maury High School also known as Maury High School, one of five city comprehensive high schools, is a high school located in the Ghent area of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Ghent, the community immediately surrounding Maury High School, has experienced a period of renewal which includes upscale single-family and town home construction along with a steady increase of small businesses.

Ghent (Norfolk)

Place
The Ghent District includes the various Ghent neighborhoods (Ghent, West Ghent, and Ghent Square) in Norfolk, Virginia. Its boundaries are roughly Brambleton Avenue/The Hague on the south, the Elizabeth River on west, Monticello Avenue on the east and the railroad crossing immediately north of 22nd Street.

James Blair Junior High School

School
The James Blair Middle School, formerly the James Blair Junior High School is a historic school building at 730 Spotswood Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia. Its original main block is a three-story brick building with limestone trim, and Beaux Arts styling. Built in 1922 to a design by the local architectural firm of Calrow, Wrenn, and Tazewell, it was the first junior high school to be built by the city school administration.

Fort Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)

Place
Fort Norfolk is a historic fort and national historic district located at Norfolk, Virginia. With the original buildings having been built between 1795 and 1809, the fort encloses 11 buildings: main gate, guardhouse, officers' quarters, powder magazine, and carpenter's shop. Fort Norfolk is the last remaining fortification of President George Washington's 18th century harbor defenses, later termed the first system of US fortifications.

Christ and St. Luke's Church

Place
Christ and St. Luke's Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was built in 1909-1910, and is a long, narrow building of rough-faced random ashlar in the English Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. It features a tall, four-stage corner tower crowned with battlements and pinnacles.

EVMC / Fort Norfolk station

Place
EVMC / Fort Norfolk is a Tide Light Rail station in Norfolk, Virginia. It opened in 2011 and is the western terminus of the line. It is situated at the intersection of Brambleton and Colley Avenues, just west of downtown and south of the historic Ghent district.The station serves Eastern Virginia Medical Center, consisting of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, the Norfolk Ronald McDonald House, Norfolk Public Health Center and American Red Cross Center, which combined have almost 20,000 employees.

Hunter House Victorian Museum

Place
The Hunter House Victorian Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, United States is a house museum.The house was built in 1894 for the merchant and banker James Wilson Hunter, together with his wife Lizzie Ayer Barnes Hunter and their three children. It was designed and built by the Boston architect W.P. Wentworth in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Seaboard Air Line Railway Building

Place
Seaboard Air Line Railway Building, also known as the Wainwright Building, is a historic office building located in Norfolk, Virginia. It was built in 1925-1926 as headquarters for Seaboard Air Line Railroad. It is a nine-story, 92,000 square-foot, steel reinforced concrete building. It is "V"-shaped and faced in textured yellow brick with numerous stone decorative elements in the Late Gothic Revival style.
Route Details

Length

5 mi

Elev. Gain

65.6 ft

Est. Steps

11000
Created by
brucecoffey15
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