{"nrhp_refnum":"02000512","name":"Lyon Village Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File No. 000-7822"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lee Hwy, N. Veitch St., N. Franklin Rd., N. Highland St., N. Fillmore St., and N. Kirkwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Arlington County","state":"VA","lat":38.89186756600006,"lon":-77.09359524468066,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 191 acres in northern Arlington County, Virginia, north of Clarendon between Wilson Boulevard and Lee Highway. The first section was platted in 1923 by Frank Lyon, and the district includes 1,074 contributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is a cohesive suburban neighborhood with tree-lined streets, curvilinear roads and a wide range of early-to-mid 20th-century house styles, mostly Colonial Revival and Craftsman bungalows. The form shows it growing from pre-1923 areas (Aurora Heights, Clarendon) through 1920s platting and later grid-pattern blocks into the 1950s. The text excerpt provided does not include the Section 8 significance statement or the criteria, so the reasons are drawn from the description.","narrative":"Lyon Village is a residential neighborhood of about 191 acres in northern Arlington County, Virginia, lying north of Clarendon between Wilson Boulevard and Lee Highway. Its first section was platted in 1923 by Frank Lyon on land bought from the heirs of Robert Cruit, with tree-lined streets, traffic circles and curving roads serving lots of less than an acre. Later blocks added a grid pattern from the 1930s to the 1950s, and the earlier communities of Aurora Heights and Clarendon were absorbed into the boundaries. The district contains 1,074 contributing resources, mainly single-family houses in Colonial Revival, Craftsman bungalow, Tudor Revival and other styles, many in modest or simplified forms. The oldest building is the Cruit Farmhouse of about 1846. Developer Frederick Westenberger built many brick Colonial Revival houses in the 1930s. Apartment buildings, churches, a park and a community building support the housing along the edges.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frank Lyon (platted 1923); developer Frederick E. Westenberger built 23 Colonial Revival houses, 1933-1940","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Classical Revival; Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly in continued residential use; also contains apartments, a meeting hall, churches and a park.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.618688-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/6795/41679590/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02000512.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000512/f40726d2d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000512/f40726d2d0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Farragutful","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyon_Village_Historic_District_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Farragutful</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyon_Village_Historic_District_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Village,_Virginia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6709670"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/arlington-county/lyon-village-historic-district-02000512/"}