Editing Plainfield, New Jersey (section)

==Historic districts==
[[File:Van Wyck Brooks by John Butler Yeats, 1909, oil on canvas, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 82 129Brooks-000001.jpg |thumb|Portrait of [[Van Wyck Brooks]], for which the district is named, by [[John Butler Yeats]], 1909]]
The restoration of large 19th century-era Plainfield estates to their original glory, such as the Craig Marsh home, has been featured in various home design magazine coverage.<ref>Coleman, Brian D. [https://www.oldhouseonline.com/articles/rich-rewards-labor-love "Rich Rewards for a Labor of Love; Hard to believe this house had been cut up into four shabby apartments, or the woodwork painted industrial green and the verandah enclosed with aluminum siding and jalousie windows. Then there were the structural problems."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004813/https://www.oldhouseonline.com/articles/rich-rewards-labor-love |date=April 1, 2018 }}, ''[[The Old-House Journal]]'', July 2, 2015. Accessed June 10, 2018.</ref><ref>Payne, Lauren. [https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/home-garden/history-lesson/ "History Lesson: Preserving An Architectural Treasure in Plainfield; A Plainfield couple prove that preserving an architectural treasure—while challenging, time-consuming and, yes, costly—is well worth the effort."], ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', October 16, 2012. Accessed June 10, 2018.</ref><ref>Jackson, Kimberly L. [http://www.nj.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2012/09/this_old_house_restoring_homes.html "This old house: Restoring homes and building community in Plainfield's Van Wyck Brooks Historic District"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', September 21, 2012. Accessed June 10, 2018.</ref>
Residential districts include:
[[File:935 Central Avenue, Plainfield, NJ.jpg|thumb|[[Van Wyck Brooks Historic District]]]]
* [[Van Wyck Brooks Historic District]], which includes more than 150 properties, was listed in [[This Old House]] magazine's 2012 list of "Best Old House Neighborhoods." Roughly bounded by Plainfield Avenue, West Eighth Street, Park Avenue, West Ninth Street and Madison Avenue, and Randolph Road, it was named for literary critic and native son [[Van Wyck Brooks]].<ref name="vwbhd">[https://www.vwbhd.com/about Our History], The Van Wyck Brooks Historic District. Accessed April 25, 2021. "Van Wyck Brooks Historic District is the largest of the six residential Historic Districts in Plainfield and encompasses 152 properties.... In 1982 the Van Wyck Brooks Historic District was designated by the City of Plainfield as a Historic District and placed on the National Register in 1986."</ref> In addition to the above-mentioned Craig Marsh home, it also contains the largest residence in Plainfield (The Coriell Mansion) and a wide variety of other historically and architecturally notable homes. The Van Wyck Brooks Historic District is the largest of the six residential Historic Districts in Plainfield, its oldest structure the Manning Stelle Farmhouse, parts of which date back to 1803. It has been a designated historic district by the City of Plainfield since 1982, and was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1985.<ref>{{NRISref|version=2013a|refnum=85003337|name=Van Wyck Brooks Historic District}}</ref>
* [[Netherwood Heights Historic District]] is named for the Netherwood Hotel which stood at what is now the blocks bordered by Denmark Road, Park Terrace, Belvidere Avenue, Berkeley Avenue. This district is located near the [[Netherwood station|Netherwood Train Station]]<ref name="drakehouseplainfieldnj">{{cite web|url=http://www.drakehouseplainfieldnj.org/historic-districts.html|title=Historic Districts - Drake House Museum|website=drakehouseplainfieldnj.org|access-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref><ref name="plainfieldnj">[https://plainfieldnj.gov/cms.aspx?page_id=47&page_name=Do%20I%20live%20in%20a%20Historic%20District? Do I live in a Historic District?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813062955/https://plainfieldnj.gov/cms.aspx?page_id=47&page_name=Do%20I%20live%20in%20a%20Historic%20District%3F |date=August 13, 2021 }}, City of Plainfield. Accessed May 13, 2020.</ref>
* [[Crescent Area Historic District]]
* [[Hillside Avenue Historic District (Plainfield, New Jersey)|Hillside Avenue Historic District]]
*Sleepy Hollow is, as of 2018, a section of stately homes on winding roads on the northeast side of the city. Some have pushed to formalize its boundaries.<ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://ptoday.blogspot.com/2017/02/sleepy-hollow-neighborhood-looking-for.html|website=ptoday.blogspot.com|title=PLAINFIELD TODAY: "Sleepy Hollow" Neighborhood: Looking for the rainbow's end?|date=February 13, 2017|access-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref>