Bill Roby's convenience store at Frankfort and Haldeman Avenue helps students learn to shop for food. It's a neighborhood of people that are involved. I think it's unique . . . People that move away will come back within five years. Most of Clifton's residential development occurred between 1880 and 1910, according to Joanne Weeter, research coordinator for the city Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission and a board member of the Clifton Community Council.
Shotgun houses are common on the sloping ground nearest to downtown.
Among the new streets that sprouted off Frankfort Avenue during the boom years was Keats Avenue, named for George Keats, the brother of the great English poet, John Keats. Louisville's Keats, along with W. S. Vernon and W. B. Payne, earned the honor of having streets named after them in Clifton by serving on the city charter committee in 1828. Burkholder and his friends were especially fond of broad, smoothly paved Bellaire Avenue, an ideal place to roller skate because of its roller-coaster hill and a dead end overlooking Brownsboro Road that kept the street relatively free of traffic. The children also used their skates for the long, daily trek to the George Rogers Clark School on Galt Avenue, he said. It was originally called Clifton Park.