This residential neighborhood of about twenty blocks on the north side of downtown contains many fine examples of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century architecture. The federally assisted Olde Towne Conservation Project, initiated in 1968, prevented the widespread demolition of housing that took place on the south side of Portsmouth's downtown.
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