Colonial Village is a historic

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complex located at

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. It contains 226 contributing buildings built in four stages between 1935 and 1940. The buildings hold approximately 1,055 apartments. The brick

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-style buildings are situated around courtyards with clusters of five and seven buildings to larger groupings of up to thirteen. Colonial Village was the first

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-insured, large-scale, rental housing project erected in the United States. The complex has been converted to condominiums split into three phases (Colonial Village I, Colonial Village II, and Colonial Village III) and two apartment complexes: Colonial Village Apartments and Colonial Village West. The

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designated the garden apartment complex to be a local historic district on December 5, 1978. The

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listed the Village on the

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on December 9, 1990.

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Website for Colonial Village I: A CondominiumWebsite for Colonial Village II: A CondominiumWebsite for Colonial Village III: A CondominiumWebsite for Colonial Village Apartments: Wesley Housing Development CorporationWebsite for Colonial Village West: Apartment Homes
Neighborhoods in Arlington County, Virginia Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Arlington County Historic Districts Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia Residential buildings completed in 1940 National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia 1935 establishments in Virginia {{ArlingtonCountyVA-NRHP-stub

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