S 13th St., S 13 Rd., S 16th St., S Barton S., S. Cleveland St. and Edgewood St., Arlington, Virginia. County/parish: Arlington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2003. NRIS 03000215.
657 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Arlington Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It contains 657 contributing buildings (including 656 apartment units) in a residential neighborhood in South Arlington. The area was constructed in 1939, and is a planned garden apartment community that incorporates recreational areas, open spaces, a swimming pool and courtyards within five superblocks. It also includes a shopping center consisting of six stores. The garden apartments are presented as two-story, brick rowhouses with Colonial Revival detailing. There are three building types distinguished by the roof form: flat, gambrel, or gable. Arlington Village was the first large-scale rental project in Arlington County and the first Federal Housing Administration-insured garden apartment development. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679618