Live in Lindley Park
A garden suburb laid out where an amusement park closed in 1917, with Lindley Park and the Greensboro Arboretum inside the line and the only GTA route that runs every 15 minutes all day on Spring Garden Street.
Lindley Park is the 585-acre area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws south of West Market Street between Elam Avenue and Holden Road, 3,491 residents in 1,663 housing units at the 2020 census. It stands on J. Van Lindley's nursery land: in 1902 he gave 60 acres along Spring Garden Street for an amusement park and lake at the end of a new streetcar line, and when the park closed in 1917 Earle Sumner Draper laid out a neighborhood around a public park in its place. The line takes in that park, the 17-acre Greensboro Arboretum, two elementary school sites and the hosiery mill on Oakland Avenue that reopened as 170 apartments in 2023, after the census had counted the area. No local historic district covers any of it, and no public source publishes a sale price for it: Zillow's index for the 27403 ZIP, which holds 3,444 of the residents, was $237,287 in August 2026, condos included.
An amusement park's grounds, replanned as a garden suburb
An area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws: feature 24, "Lindley Park", of the neighborhood layer the City published for its Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, marked VERIFIED NO, from a set of polygons the City describes as estimated and whose center points it says "should not be considered accurate". The current City limits take in all of it, 585 acres. It is not an association's territory, a registered organization or a plat. Traced on the City's street centerlines, West Market Street forms most of the northern edge, for about 3.2 km, with stretches of West Wendover Avenue and Ashland Drive; South Holden Road and a stretch of Walker Avenue the western; Oakland Avenue the southern; and South Elam Avenue and Bitting Street the eastern. South Lindell Road, West Wendover Avenue, Walker Avenue, Northridge Street, Spring Garden Street, Ashland Drive and Park Terrace run through it. The City's other lines overlap it without matching it: its Lindley Park neighborhood plan covers all 3,491 residents of 2020, the Spring Garden Street pedestrian scale overlay 1,167, the GSO2040 plan's Patterson Street Corridor reinvestment area 1,075, and the Sunset Hills National Register district 76. The whole guide is in Guilford County, Guilford County Schools and City Council District 4; 3,444 residents are in the 27403 ZIP code and 47 in 27407.
This was nursery ground first. John Van Lindley started Pomona Hills Nursery about 1877, and by the end of the century his nurseries reportedly covered 900 acres between Oakland Avenue and West Market Street. In 1902 he gave 60 acres along Spring Garden Street for an amusement park, opened in June at the end of the Greensboro Electric Company's new streetcar line, with a lake, a dancing pavilion, a vaudeville show and a miniature railroad. It closed in 1917, the lake was filled in, and Earle Sumner Draper laid out a planned neighborhood around a public park, with stone gateways on Spring Garden Street that still stand.
The line here is the City's estimate. This guide is the area the City of Greensboro's own neighborhood map draws, on a layer published for its traffic-calming program and marked unverified, clipped to the City limits: 585 acres south of West Market Street between Elam Avenue and Holden Road, with 3,491 residents in 1,663 housing units at the 2020 census. This guide claims nothing about where residents think the name ends. Other City lines overlap it: the City's Lindley Park neighborhood plan covers every resident, the Spring Garden Street pedestrian scale overlay 1,167 of them and a GSO2040 reinvestment area along Patterson Street 1,075. What either the plan or the overlay requires of a lot was not read. No local historic district touches the guide.
More is inside the line than houses. The Greensboro Arboretum, 17 acres dedicated in 1991, and Draper's park with the City's Lindley Recreation Center and outdoor pool are both here, and so are two elementary school sites. The former Pomona High School of about 1920 on Spring Garden Street closed as a school in 1979 and is apartments now. The Mock, Judson, Voehringer hosiery mill on Oakland Avenue, which employed 600 people by 1929, stopped making hosiery in 1972; Capitol Broadcasting bought it in 2022 for $7.6 million and opened 170 apartments there in the winter of 2023. Those homes post-date the census, so the 2020 count does not include them.
What is not known is the price, and the student share. No public source publishes a sale price for Lindley Park. Zillow's index for the 27403 ZIP, home to 3,444 of the residents, was $237,287 in August 2026, down 0.7% on the year and with condos in it. UNCG begins about 1.5 km east. No census table counts students by block: tract 106.01, which holds 2,833 of the guide's residents, counted 12.5% of those aged three and over in college or graduate school on the 2020 to 2024 survey (margins of 123 undergraduates and 39 graduate students), and tract 106.02, with 621, counted 51.3%. Neither tract stops at the line.
The bus is the practical advantage. CrossMax Purple runs along Spring Garden Street with ten stops inside the line, every 15 minutes at midday on weekdays and at weekends, the only regular GTA route that frequent all day; Route 9 runs along West Market Street every 30 minutes. The fare is $1.50. The tax bill is 158.80 cents per $100 for fiscal 2027, County and City together, on the 2022 revaluation's values, because Senate Bill 889 put the 2026 reappraisal off until the 2027 bills: a $300,000 assessment owes $4,764, the buyer's first bill follows the seller's value, and an ordinary buyer has no homestead exemption to claim. Stormwater and solid waste fees come on the City's water bill and were read only secondhand. Creeks put 2.92% of the area in a mapped flood hazard area, with no resident in it in 2020.
- Run the address through the district's School Assignment Locator, and ask where Lindley will meet the year your child starts: reports give 2027 and early 2028
- Budget the tax on the seller's 2022 value at 158.80 cents per $100, and expect the 2026 reappraisal on the 2027 bill
- Look the address up on FEMA's flood map: the point is in zone X, but the creek corridors are not
- Ask the City what its Lindley Park plan and Spring Garden Street overlay mean for your lot
How Lindley Park got here
- 1877John Van Lindley, a Quaker nurseryman who came back from the Union Army to his father's business, starts Pomona Hills Nursery on the west side of Greensboro, about this year. By the late nineteenth century J. Van Lindley Nurseries reportedly holds 900 acres between Oakland Avenue and West Market Street.
- 1902Lindley gives 60 acres along Spring Garden Street for a recreation complex. Lindley Park opens in June with a vaudeville show, a dining casino, a bowling alley, a dancing pavilion, a miniature railroad and a man-made lake, at the end of the Greensboro Electric Company's new streetcar line.
- 1917The amusement park closes at the end of its fifteen-year agreement and the lake is filled in. Earle Sumner Draper designs a planned neighborhood around a public park in its place, entered through stone gateways on Spring Garden Street. Lindley dies in June 1918.
- 1920Pomona High School is built at 2201 Spring Garden Street, about this year, in the Classical Revival style; it later serves as Lindley Junior High School.
- 1923Most of the area comes into the city. The City's annexation layer dates the land under 3,244 of the guide's 3,491 residents of 2020 to 1923, 210 to 1927 and 37 to 1957.
- 1926Bernard Mock, Nathaniel Judson and John K. Voehringer found their hosiery company. Its mill on Oakland Avenue goes up from 1927 and by 1929 employs 600 people making four million pairs of silk hosiery a year; it builds no mill village, and its workers live in Lindley Park and Highland Park.
- 1968O.Henry magazine's history of the neighborhood remembers 1968 as the year West Wendover Avenue came through, cutting Lindley Park's playgrounds and ballfields off from the houses.
- 1972Hosiery production at the Oakland Avenue mill ends; part of the building runs as an outlet store until 1999. Pomona High School's building closes as a school in 1979 and later becomes apartments.
- 1991The Greensboro Arboretum, begun by Greensboro Beautiful in the mid-1980s on a 17-acre tract off Ashland Drive called the Anniversary Garden, is completed and dedicated to the City.
- 2004The City and the Lindley Park Neighborhood Association, formed in 1993, develop a neighborhood plan. The City's plan layer now covers all 3,491 of the guide's 2020 residents.
- 2011The Mock, Judson, Voehringer Company Hosiery Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 28 March.
- 2022Capitol Broadcasting Company buys the mill in April for $7.6 million and converts it to 170 apartments, which open as MoJud Lofts in the winter of 2023.
- 2024On 23 July the Board of Education votes unanimously to rebuild Lindley Elementary, a building of about 1928, rather than renovate it, at an estimated $76 million.
- 2026The district breaks ground on the new Lindley Elementary at the end of August; one report gives an opening in early 2028. New FEMA flood maps took effect on 10 June, and Senate Bill 889 kept the 2026 tax bills on 2022 values.
Draper's park and the arboretum, split by Wendover Avenue
Lindley Park itself, the park Draper put at the center of the plan, holds the City's recreation center and outdoor pool on Springwood Drive. The Greensboro Arboretum at 401 Ashland Drive is open daily without charge, with labeled collections that include a winter garden and more than 70 varieties of rhododendron. O.Henry magazine's history remembers 1968 as the year West Wendover Avenue came through and cut the playgrounds and ballfields off from the houses.
What the map does not show: the City's park pages refused this site's requests, so the recreation center's hours and programs and the pool's season were not read. The second photograph here is the Tanger Bicentennial Garden, about 2.8 km north, not Lindley Park.
Elsewhere in Greensboro, not Lindley Park
24 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
Showing 1–12 of 24 places, nearest first.
Method: distances and drive times are computed from a representative point, OpenStreetMap's Lindley Park place node, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times. Lindley Elementary is meeting at Murphey, about 2.4 km south in a straight line, until its new building opens.
Every gym within reach
The City's Lindley Recreation Center and the outdoor Lindley Pool are inside the line on Springwood Drive. The indoor pool is the Greensboro Aquatic Center on West Gate City Boulevard, and the nearest YMCA is the Kathleen Price Bryan branch on West Market Street downtown.
- Lindley Recreation Center, 2907 Springwood Drive: the City's layer says to call for hours
- Lindley Pool, 2914 Springwood Drive: outdoor, season not read
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard: the City's indoor pool
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Lindley Recreation Center open | The City's recreation center at 2907 Springwood Drive, in Lindley Park inside the line. The City's facility layer says to call for hours; programs and fees were not read. | 4–5 min |
| Lindley Pool open | The City's outdoor pool in Lindley Community Park, 2914 Springwood Drive, inside the line. Its season and fees were not read. | 4–5 min |
| Greensboro Aquatic Center open | The City's indoor pool at 1921 West Gate City Boulevard. Hours and fees were not read. | 4–6 min |
| Glenwood Recreation Center open | The City's recreation center at 2010 Coliseum Boulevard. The facility layer says to call for hours. | 5–8 min |
| Kathleen Price Bryan Family YMCA open | The YMCA of Greensboro's downtown branch at 501 West Market Street. Its amenities were not read. | 6–10 min |
The free option is the arboretum, open every day without charge.
One zone for all of it, and a school rebuilt in the middle
Guilford County Schools assigns by the zone of the parent's home, and on its 2026-27 layers every one of the guide's 3,491 residents of 2020 is zoned for Lindley Elementary, Kiser Middle and Grimsley High, graded C, C and B by NC DPI for 2024-25 and 2023-24; no school-level 2025-26 file was found. Lindley's Camden Road site is inside the line, but the board voted on 23 July 2024 to rebuild its building of about 1928, ground was broken in August 2026, and the school is meeting at Murphey Elementary on Ontario Street. Brooks Global Studies, a magnet on Ashland Drive, is also inside the line, and takes applications, not addresses.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lindley Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for John Van Lindley Elementary on the district's 2026-27 layer, and so are all 3,491 of the guide's 2020 residents. Its site at 2700 Camden Road is inside the line, 0.4 km from the point in a straight line, but the building is being replaced: the board voted on 23 July 2024 to rebuild it for an estimated $76 million, ground was broken in August 2026, and the district's site layer says the school is meeting at Murphey Elementary, 2306 Ontario Street, meanwhile. Reports give the reopening as 2027 and as early 2028. NC DPI graded it C for 2024-25 (score 69, growth met) and C for 2023-24; a school-level file of 2025-26 grades was not found. |
| Kiser Middle School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for Kiser Middle, at 407 Campus Drive 2.45 km north-east in a straight line, and so is every 2020 resident of the guide. C for 2024-25 (score 57, growth not met) and C for 2023-24. |
| Grimsley High School | Guilford County Schools | The point is zoned for Grimsley High, at 801 North Josephine Boyd Street 2.24 km north-east in a straight line, and so is every 2020 resident of the guide. B for 2024-25 (score 76, growth exceeded) and B for 2023-24. |
| Brooks Global Studies Elementary School | Guilford County Schools | A Global Studies magnet at 400 Ashland Drive, inside the line 0.96 km from the point. Living beside it does not zone a child for it: a seat comes by application, and the district fills most choice seats by lottery. B for 2024-25. |
Check the exact address in the district's School Assignment Locator before you commit. The zones here were read at one point, not at your house, and most choice seats are filled by lottery.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs near 9.6 °C and lows near -1.1 °C at Piedmont Triad International, with 19.5 nights at or below freezing and 7.4 cm of snow on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- A buyer now pays the 2026 bill's rate on a 2022 value; the 2026 reappraisal reaches the 2027 bill
- Highs near 11.8 °C, 15.1 nights at or below freezing and 5.1 cm of snow on the normal
- The arboretum's winter garden is the collection to see this month
- Highs near 16.3 °C and 94 mm of rain on the normal, with 2.3 cm of snow still the March figure
- The arboretum's rhododendrons, more than 70 varieties, follow through spring
- Highs near 21.7 °C, lows near 8.8 °C and 96 mm of rain
- CrossMax Purple keeps its 15-minute service through the weekend, so a Saturday on Spring Garden Street needs no timetable
- Highs near 25.6 °C, 89 mm of rain and 1.1 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- The City's outdoor Lindley Pool is inside the line on Springwood Drive; its 2027 season was not read
- Highs near 29.6 °C, 104 mm of rain and 6.6 days at or above 32 °C on the normal
- The City adopted its 2026-27 rate on 16 June and the County on 25 June; both are reset each June for the July fiscal year
- New FEMA flood panels took effect on 10 June 2026; the reference point is in zone X
- Highs near 31.4 °C, lows near 20.7 °C and 13.7 days at or above 32 °C
- The outdoor Lindley Pool, inside the line, and the indoor Aquatic Center are the City pools nearest the reference point
- Highs near 30.3 °C, 111 mm of rain and 9.1 days at or above 32 °C
- Lindley Elementary's pupils begin another year at Murphey Elementary on Ontario Street while the new building goes up on Camden Road
- The County's rate sheet lists a 1% discount for paying the County and City bill early
- Highs near 26.9 °C and 117 mm of rain, the wettest month on the normal
- Check FEMA's map at the address: 2.92% of the guide's area, all along creeks, is in a mapped flood hazard area, though no 2020 resident lived in it
- Highs near 21.7 °C, lows near 9.7 °C and 79 mm of rain, the driest month after February
- Tract 106.01, home to 2,833 of the guide's residents, counted 12.5% of those aged three and over in college or graduate school on the 2020 to 2024 survey
- Highs near 15.9 °C and 7.7 nights at or below freezing on the normal
- The canopy comes down over the streets Draper laid out and the stone gateways on Spring Garden Street
- Highs near 11.1 °C, 16.6 nights at or below freezing and 3.0 cm of snow on the normal
- The arboretum stays open daily without charge through the winter
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