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Virginia Heights, Virginia

Virginia Heights Historic District
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Virginia Heights Historic District is located in District of Columbia
Virginia Heights Historic District
Virginia Heights Historic District is located in Virginia
Virginia Heights Historic District
Virginia Heights Historic District is located in the US
Virginia Heights Historic District
Location Bounded by 10th Pl. S., S. Frederick St. & S. George Mason Dr., Arlington, Virginia
Coordinates 38°51′02″N 77°6′52″W / 38.85056°N 77.11444°W / 38.85056; -77.11444Coordinates: 38°51′02″N 77°6′52″W / 38.85056°N 77.11444°W / 38.85056; -77.11444
Area 29.6 acres (12.0 ha)
Built 1946 (1946)
Built by Lindsey Construction Co., et al.
Architect Goodman, Charles M.
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Modern Movement
MPS Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960 MPS
NRHP Reference # 08000065
VLR # 000-9701
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 21, 2008
Designated VLR December 5, 2007

The Virginia Heights Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It is directly west of the Columbia Forest Historic District. It contains 117 contributing buildings in a residential neighborhood in southwestern Arlington. The area was developed between 1946 and 1952, and consists of four small subdivisions of Section Four of Columbia Forest, High Point, Virginia Heights, and Frederick Hill. The dwelling styles include Colonial Revival style houses and Modernist twin dwellings designed by noted local architect Charles M. Goodman. In addition, five single dwellings in Virginia Heights are known to be prefabricated houses, three of which are Lustron houses.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.



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