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Glenmore (Arlington, Virginia)
This is a list page of all Historic Districts that the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia, has designated as of March 8, 2018. The term “historic district” includes both individual and collections of historic buildings, sites or objects. Cemeteries * Ball-Carlin Cemetery (1785) * Ball Family Burial Grounds (1814) * Robert Ball Sr. Family Burial Ground (1854) * Calloway Cemetery (1891) * Travers Family Graveyard (1830) * Walker Chapel and Cemetery (1871) Commercial buildings * Green Valley Pharmacy (1942) * Dan Kain Building (1946) Community buildings * Barcroft Community House (1907) * Carlin Community Hall (1892) * Clarendon Citizens Hall (1921) Forts * Fort C.F. Smith (1863) * Fort Ethan Allen (1861) * Fort Ethan Allen Trench (1861) Garden Apartment Complexes * Colonial Village (1934) * Buckingham Villages (1937-1953) * Cambridge Courts (1943) Houses * Alcova (1860) * Ball–Sellers House (1760) * Broadview (1881) * George Crossman House (1892 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Districts
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from certain types of development. Historic districts may or may not also be the center of the city. They may be coterminous with the commercial district, administrative district, or arts district, or separate from all of these. Historical districts are often parts of a larger urban setting, but they can also be parts or all of small towns, or a rural areas with historic agriculture-related properties, or even a physically disconnected series of related structures throughout the region. Much criticism has arisen of historic districts and the effect protective zoning and historic designation status laws have on the housing supply. When an area of a city is designated as part of a 'historic district', new housing development is artificially res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge Courts
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Reevesland
Reevesland (Reeves Farmhouse or Torreyson Farm) is the remnant of an estate that was once located in the present List of neighborhoods in Arlington County, Virginia, Boulevard Manor neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. The former estate, located at 400 N. Manchester Street in the western part of the county, now consists of of land with a house and outbuildings that were originally part of a dairy farm. History Reevesland has the distinction of being the last operating dairy farm in Arlington. The 160-acre farm remained in the same family for three generations and it represents an important era in Arlington’s history, when the area was transformed from a sleepy, rural community into the thriving suburban/urban county it is today. Reevesland was the name given to the farm and dairy operation by George Reeves. Originally known as the Torreyson Farm, the land was purchased in 1863 by William H. Torreyson, who built a house around 1865 and used it as a tenant house. In 1898, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hermitage (Arlington, Virginia)
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Harry Gray House
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Glenmore (Arlington, Virginia)
This is a list page of all Historic Districts that the County Board of Arlington County, Virginia, has designated as of March 8, 2018. The term “historic district” includes both individual and collections of historic buildings, sites or objects. Cemeteries * Ball-Carlin Cemetery (1785) * Ball Family Burial Grounds (1814) * Robert Ball Sr. Family Burial Ground (1854) * Calloway Cemetery (1891) * Travers Family Graveyard (1830) * Walker Chapel and Cemetery (1871) Commercial buildings * Green Valley Pharmacy (1942) * Dan Kain Building (1946) Community buildings * Barcroft Community House (1907) * Carlin Community Hall (1892) * Clarendon Citizens Hall (1921) Forts * Fort C.F. Smith (1863) * Fort Ethan Allen (1861) * Fort Ethan Allen Trench (1861) Garden Apartment Complexes * Colonial Village (1934) * Buckingham Villages (1937-1953) * Cambridge Courts (1943) Houses * Alcova (1860) * Ball–Sellers House (1760) * Broadview (1881) * George Crossman House (1892 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glebe House (Arlington, Virginia)
The Glebe House, built in 1854–1857, is a octagon house, historic house with an octagon-shaped wing in Arlington County, Virginia. The Northern Virginia Conservation Trust holds a conservation easement to help protect and preserve it. The name of the house comes from the property's history as a glebe, an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. In this case, the glebe was established by the Church of England before the American Revolutionary War. A historical marker that the Arlington County government erected near the house in 1969 states that the glebe was a farm that was: ... provided for the rector (ecclesiastical), rector of Fairfax Parish, Virginia, Fairfax Parish, which included both Christ Church (Alexandria, Virginia), Christ Church, Alexandria, and the Falls Church. The Glebe House, built in 1775, stood here. It burned in 1808 and was rebuilt in 1820, as a hunting lodge; the octagon wing was added about 1850. Distinguished perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawson Bailey House
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George Crossman House
George Crossman House is an historic home located in the East Falls Church, Virginia, East Falls Church section of Arlington, Virginia. It was built in 1892 by George Grant Crossman for his bride Mary Ellen (Nellie) Dodge of Lewinsville, VA.Arlington Historical Magazine, October 2001 They married on April 7, 1892. The house was once part of a dairy farm in what was then rural Northern Virginia. The Crossman Farm's dairy products were sold to local neighbors as well as to the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association. The Crossman's son William helped operate the farm and later assumed ownership and management of the house and dairy operation, which was one of the last dairy farms in Arlington County. The house is located in the East Falls Church neighborhood of Arlington County, which was part of the City of Falls Church until 1936. The Crossman Farm property included the house and several outbuildings, including two barns which no longer exist. The street running in fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
