Eastover sits just east of Myers Park and shares much of its DNA: mature trees, generous lots, serious architecture. What it has that Myers Park does not is fewer through-streets and noticeably less traffic. People who know both often prefer this one.
The feel
Residential in the truest sense. There is very little reason to drive through Eastover unless you live there, and the streets reflect that.
The Mint Museum Randolph anchors the neighborhood's eastern edge, and the whole area sits within easy reach of both Uptown and SouthPark without belonging to either.
What you'll find
Substantial homes on wide, well-planted lots, many of them original to the neighborhood and carefully kept. Renovations here tend to be respectful rather than wholesale.
Who it suits
Buyers who want Myers Park's scale and maturity with a little more privacy, and who like knowing that the traffic on their street is people who live on it.
How it came to be
Eastover was begun in 1927 by the E. C. Griffith Company on what had been two dairy farms. Griffith saw an upper-income market branching off Myers Park, which was not yet fully built out.
Its earliest curving drives were the work of Earle Sumner Draper, the same planner who revised Myers Park, and the early architecture is overwhelmingly red-brick Georgian Revival with scattered Tudor Revival.
The Mint Museum Randolph opened here in 1936, in the building that had housed the original branch of the United States Mint. It was North Carolina's first art museum.
At a glance
- EstablishedBegun 1927
- CharacterHistoric, private
- LotsWide and well-planted
- NearMint Museum Randolph
- TrafficAlmost entirely residential
What we are seeing
The question we get most about Eastover is whether it is worth paying for the quiet versus a comparable house a few streets over. Usually the answer is yes, and the people who buy here tend to stay a long time. Turnover is low, which is the whole appeal and also the frustration.