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Illsley Place began as a farmstead. The Webb family farm became the Illsley estate — the homestead of Francis Illsley Brown and Anna Bond Brown — and in 1923 developer W. E. Doud subdivided it into a gated residential enclave a single block long, entered through brick pillars at Broadway and Beaver Avenue. Remnants of the homestead's stone pillars still stand along Broadway. The adjoining stretch of West Rudisill Boulevard, the western end of the city's great east-west park boulevard, was built up in the same years, its houses shaded by trees that survive from the city's early twentieth-century beautification plantings.
The Illsley Place–West Rudisill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 2006, holds 63 contributing buildings built between about 1887 and 1955, with the Illsley Drive roundabout as its lone contributing structure. The district's buildings are treated in the Architecture section.
Sources: National Register registration form, Illsley Place–West Rudisill Historic District (Ref. 06000310); ARCH, Illsley Place Home & Garden Tour; ACGSI neighborhoods page.