Tree Streets Neighborhood Guide

Tree Streets is a historic neighborhood tucked between East Tennessee State University and downtown Johnson City, defined by the grid of tree-named streets — Maple, Walnut, Pine, Locust — that give it both its name and its navigational logic. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, recognized for its unusually intact collection of early 20th-century homes built between 1900 and 1940, including craftsman bungalows and American foursquares that have held their character through a century of academic neighbors. Residents tend to be a mix of longtime owners and university-connected households who lean into the neighborhood's walkable, porch-forward culture, with downtown breweries and the ETSU campus both reachable on foot or bike. The annual neighborhood-wide yard sale has become something of a community institution, drawing visitors from across the city and reinforcing the sense that Tree Streets functions as much as a community as a place to live.